Antoninus Pius. A.D. 138-161. Æ sestertius. 29.63 gm. 34 mm. Rome mint. Struck circa A.D. 141-143. His laureate head right; ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III / Apollo standing left, holding patera and lyre; APOLLINI AVGVSTO S C. RIC III 598. Near Extremely Fine; handsome orichalcum surfaces; well centered and sharply struck on a broad medallic flan. Choice example.

Includes David Sear certificate of authenticity, with historical notes in which he explains "the reverse is dedicated to 'the Augustan Apollo' whose temple was located on a steep slope of the Palatine Hill....It was excavated in the 1960's and probably contained a statue of the god resembling the coin type."

From an American collection formed in the 1950s primarily from Spink (Messrs. French and Forrer) in London, NFA (Edward Gans) in New York, and Earle K. Stanton in Los Angeles.