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Lot
# 517 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$4500
/ Price Realized: US$3800
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Antoninus Pius. Aureus
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Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. Aureus, 6.88gg. (6h). Rome, 143-4 AD. Obv: ANTONINVS AVG - PIVS P P TR P COS III Head laureate right. Rx: IMPERA - TOR II Victory flying right holding trophy with both hands. BM 492. Calico 1548 (this coin). Cohen 429 (45 Fr.). RIC 109a (C ). Near Mint State.
Ex Philip T. Ashton Collection. Purchased from Ken Dorney, February 2000; ex M & M, November 1962, lot 612.
Collectors must watch out for a deceptive modern fake of this aureus, published by the IAPN in Bulletin of Counterfeits 11, 1, 1988, fig. 10a. Our coin is from different dies, and is authentic; indeed fig. 11 in the cited article illustrates our very specimen as a genuine pendant to the replica there published.
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