ROMAN COINS. COINS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
ANTONINUS PIUS, AD 138-161. Denarius, 148-149. AR 3.71 g. ANTONINVS AVG - PIVS PP TR P XII Laureate head r., drapery on l. shoulder. Rev. COS - IIII Annona, wearing long dress, standing facing, head turned l., holding anchor with her l. hand, two corn-ears in her lowered r. hand over modius. BMC 95, 657var. (no drapery); C. 284; RIC 47, 175var. (no drapery).
Toned. Extremely fine
Provenance:
Ing. G. Mazzini collection (Monete Imperiali Romane II [1957], 180, 284 and pl. LXIV).
Auction F. Sternberg, Zurich V (1975), 99.