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Auction 102  18 May 2016
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Lot 964

Estimate: 750 USD
Price realized: 650 USD
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Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ As (27mm, 9.81 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 140. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Mars right, holding spear and shield, descending through the air toward sleeping Rhea Silvia. RIC III 694c. VF, dark green patina, light smoothing and porosity.


From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Gorny & Mosch 126 (14 October 2003), lot 2493 (hammer €525); Ritter von Marabini Collection.

In Roman mythology, Mars and Rhea Silvia were the parents of Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome.
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