NumisBids
  
Agora Auctions, LLC
Numismatic Auction 39  25 August 2015
View prices realized

Lot 146

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 75 USD
Find similar lots
Share this lot: Share by Email
Antoninus Pius. A.D. 138-161. AE sestertius (32.4 mm, 24.66 g, 1 h). Rome mint, Struck A.D. 149. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII, laureate head right / TEMPORVM FELICITAS, COS IIII in, S C, crossed cornucopias adorned with a bunch of grapes and two grain ears, surmounted by busts of two boys facing each another. RIC 857; BMCRE 1827. aVF. The infants are thought to represent T. Aelius Antoninus and T. Aurelius Antoninus, the twin sons of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina Junior born in A.D. 149. Unfortunately, both boys died in thier infancy.
Question about this auction? Contact Agora Auctions, LLC