Ancient Gold
Lot 1699A Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Ancient Gold
Estimate $5,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $4,000
ANTONINIUS PIUS, (A.D. 138-161), gold aureus, Rome mint, issued 148-149, (7.274 grams), obv. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII, bare headed bust to right draped and cuirased, rev. TR POT COS IIII, Roma seated to left, holding Victory and spear, (cf.S.4025, Cal. 1659 [This Coin illustrated], RIC -, C.-). Extremely fine and very rare, apparently the only reported example of this varirty.
Ex Spink Taisei Auction Sale 41, Zurich, 30th April 1992 (lot 62).
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