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366, Lot: 27. Estimate $400.
Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.27 g, 6h). Indian imitation. ANTONINVS ΛYC PIYS P P TR P XIIII, laureate beardless head right / LAETITIA COS IIII, Ceres, holding grain ears, and Proserpina, holding pomegranate, standing vis-à-vis. Cf. RIC III 199c; cf. Calicó 1556 (both refs for type); Turner –; L.A. Adams, “The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei,” SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 5 (this coin). Near VF, toned in devices.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.