Live auction - brm_393952 - ANTONINUS PIUS Sesterce

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Estimate :	1 500 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	28 June 2016 15:21:30

Type : Sesterce

Date: 153-154

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : copper

Diameter : 32 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 26,52 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Buste inhabituel et spectaculaire. Joli revers de style fin. Très belle patine verte

Catalogue references :

C.454 (4 fr.) - RIC.914 - BMC/RE.1941 pl. 47 - HCC.308 var. - RCV.4183 var. (750$) - MRK.35 /181 var. - SIR.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANTONINVS AVG - PIVS P P TR P XVII.

Obverse description : Buste lauré d’Anto nin le Pieux à droite, avec l’égide sur l’épaule gauche (O*4).

Obverse translation : “Antoninus Augustus Pius Pater Patriæ Tribunicia Potestate septimum decimum”, (Antonin auguste pieux, père de la patrie, revêtu de la dix-septième puissance tribunitienne).