Antoninus Pius Æ Mule Dupondius. Rome, AD 145. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS IIII, radiate head right / Minerva standing right, holding spear and resting left hand on shield; S-C across fields. RIC -, cf. 806-808 for similar types for Pius & 1245 for this rev. type for Aurelius. 11.32g, 25mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine; lightly tooled.
From a private North American collection.
This reverse type was used to strike sestertii of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar in AD 145, and is here paired with a new obverse type of Antoninus Pius introduced in the same year.