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Buy or Bid Sale 198  7 July 2016
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Lot 386

Starting price: 210 USD
Price realized: 225 USD
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Antoninus Pius; 138-161 AD, Rome, 152 AD, Denarius, 3.20g. Bust var. of Strack-236, BM-741, RIC-210, and C-961. Obv: IMP CAES T AEL HADR - ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P Head laureate l. Rx: TR POT XV - COS IIII Annona standing l. holding two wheat ears and resting l. hand on modius set on prow, rudder leans against prow. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Gitbud & Naumann E39, Pecunem, 4 January 2016, lot 924. Bust left denarii of Antoninus Pius with this obverse legend are very rare. None at all are recorded in the standard reference works; another example like ours, from the same obverse die but a different reverse die, was offered online by Klassische Münzen (Brandt) in 2015. . Good VF (300)
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