Antoninus Pius AV Aureus. Rome, AD 157-158. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, laureate head to right / TR POT XXI COS IIII, Salus, draped, standing to right, feeding out of patera in left hand snake held in right hand. RIC III 279a; C. 1042; BMCRE 905; Biaggi 775 var. (bust type); Calicó 1684. 7.28g, 19mm, 12h.
Near Mint State; highly lustrous.
From the Altstetten Collection, kept in the vault of Crédit Suisse Geneva (documentation available upon request) since 26 November 1969.