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Auction 11  12 January 2014
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Lot 447

Estimate: 2000 USD
Price realized: 2000 USD
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Lot of four Antonine sestertii. (0h). . (1) Antoninus Pius, 140-144 AD. 27.09g, 10-11h. Obv: COS III, Head laureate right. Rx: OPI - AVG around, S C in exergue, Ops seated left holding transverse scepter and pulling out drapery from left shoulder. BM 1258, Cohen 569 (8 Fr.), RIC 612. (2) Marcus Aurelius, 173 AD. 23.33g, 11h. Obv: TR P XXVII, Bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right. Rx: GERMANICO - AVG IMP VI COS III S - C Trophy, between German woman seated on shields, supporting head with hand, and German man standing with hands tied behind back. BMC 1436 note, Cohen 228 (15 Fr.), RIC 1060. (3) Marcus Aurelius, 178 AD. 21.49g, 12h. Obv: TR P XXXII, Head laureate right. Rx: FELICITAS - AVG - IMP VIIII COS III P P S - C Felicitas standing left holding caduceus and scepter. BM 1676, RIC 1227, Cohen 184 var. (4) Lucius Verus, 164 AD. 21.48g, 12h. Obv: L AVREL VERVS AVG - ARMENIACVS Bust laureate, cuirassed right. Rx: TR P IIII - IMP II COS II S - C Mars standing right holding spear and shield. BMC 1115 note, RIC 1385, bust var. of Cohen 232. VF to EF

Ex Richard P. Miller Collection; second coin from Cornelius Vermeule Collection, with Vermeule's ticket recording provenance from Christie's 1948 Fitzwilliam Sale, lot 192, the collection of an aristocratic British family formed in the eighteenth century
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