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ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (20mm, 6.53 g, 3h). Indian imitation. ΛNTONINVS ΛVZU PIV(retrograde S) PP IMP II, laureate head right / TPBVICIIVΛI +IVO[...]C VI PP, trophy; below, captive kneeling right. Cf. RIC II 29 (for rev. [Titus]); cf. Calicó 760 (same); Turner –. Near VF, traces of deposits, holed and plugged.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.
This issue demonstrates clearly an element of Indian imitative types by combining the obverse and reverse of two different types. Although blundered, the obverse legend is clear enough to suggest that the portrait is meant to be Antoninus Pius. The beard, however, with its long curls, is more stylistically similar to those seen on the portraits of Pertinax, Didius Julianus, and Septimius Severus. While the reverse type is known on Republican denarii of C. Memmius (see Crawford 427/1) and on gold and silver issues of Titus (see RIC II 29-30), it is unknown for Antoninus Pius (or Pertinax or Julianus or Severus). An interesting imitative hybrid
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.
This issue demonstrates clearly an element of Indian imitative types by combining the obverse and reverse of two different types. Although blundered, the obverse legend is clear enough to suggest that the portrait is meant to be Antoninus Pius. The beard, however, with its long curls, is more stylistically similar to those seen on the portraits of Pertinax, Didius Julianus, and Septimius Severus. While the reverse type is known on Republican denarii of C. Memmius (see Crawford 427/1) and on gold and silver issues of Titus (see RIC II 29-30), it is unknown for Antoninus Pius (or Pertinax or Julianus or Severus). An interesting imitative hybrid