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Auction 117  19-20 May 2021
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Lot 540

Estimate: 500 USD
Price realized: 1900 USD
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Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (31.5mm, 23.78 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 139. Laureate head right / A S I A around, COS II/ S C in two lines across field, Asia, towered, standing left, holding crown and anchor. RIC III 579; Banti 38 var. (placement of rev. legend); BMCRE 1183; G. Hirsch 188, lot 704 (same dies). Green-brown patina, areas of minor porosity and smoothing, scratch on reverse. VF. Rare.

From the Collection of a Gentleman, Kent, England.
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