139, Lot: 310. Estimate $100. Sold for $81. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. As Caesar, AD 138. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.17 g). Rome mint. Bare head right / Concordia standing left and leaning on column, holding patera and double cornucopiae. RIC II 449 (Hadrian); RSC 1060. VF. Scarce.

After the sudden death of Aelius Caesar on 1 January 138 AD, Hadrian was left without a successor. T. Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Antoninus, an individual from a distinguished family and with a competent, if unnoteworthy, career, became Hadrian's new