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Auction X  13 January 2013
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Lot 570

Estimate: 8000 USD
Price realized: 37 500 USD
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Antoninus Pius as Caesar. 138 AD. Aureus, 7.46g. (6h). Rome. Obv: IMP T AEL CAES - ANTONINVS Bare-headed, draped bust right. Rx: CONCORD in exergue, TRI.POT COS - DES.II around, Concordia seated left holding patera in right hand and resting left elbow on statuette of Spes standing on column behind her; cornucopia beneath seat. BM 1020, pl. 67.19 (same dies). Strack 414 (only the BM spec. with this bust type). Calico 1485 (same dies). RIC 438 note. Cohen 128 corr. (40 Fr.). A scarce aureus of Antoninus as Caesar, rare with title COS DES II. Very special high relief portrait of Antoninus Pius from this very famous French collection. Choice EF.

Ex NAC 40, 16 May 2007, lot 724. Ex Ponton d'Amecourt Collection, Rollin & Feuardent, 25-30 April 1887, lot 263. With an old collector's capsule with edge in pattern of gold braid, and attached tickets in German naming the d'Amecourt provenance.
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