Banti Plate Coin – Ex Hartwig Collection of 1910 – Of Exceptional Quality

5706998.

SOLD $6500

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 22.81 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 147. ANTONINVS AVG PI VS P P TR P COS IIII, laureate head right / FELI CI TA S • AVG, S C across field, Felicitas, draped, standing left, holding capricorn in extended right hand and long caduceus in left. RIC III 770; Banti 150 (this coin, illustrated); BMCRE 1677. Beautiful even brown patina. Superb EF. Exceptional.

Ex John Wright Collection, purchased from Jonathan Kern, January 2009; Dr. Paul Hartwig Collection (Santamaria [2], 7 March 1910), lot 1526.