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401, Lot: 529. Estimate $200.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Antoninus Pius. Died AD 161. Æ As (28mm, 14.47 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, circa AD 161. Bareheaded bust right, slight drapery / Column surmounted by statue of Pius holding eagle and scepter. RIC III 1270 (Aurelius) var. (without slight drapery); MIR 18, 46-7/12 var. (same). VF, dark green patina with touches of red, light smoothing.


From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex William C. Boyd Collection (Baldwin's 42, 26 September 2005), lot 409 (part of), with his original ticket (numbered 51) that indicates he purchased it from Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge (3 September 1892), lot 217 (part of).