| Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. > Buy or Bid Sale 227 | Auction date: 14 May 2024 |
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| Lot description: Antoninus Pius. 40-as; Antoninus Pius; 138-161 AD, Rome, 140-4 AD, As, 9.66g. Obv: ANTONINVS AVG - PIVS P P TR P COS III Head laureate r. Rx: Overstruck with two different rev. types: [GEN]IO - SENA[TVS] S C over T - R P[OT COS II]I S - [C], Romulus advancing r. holding spear and trophy (only the groundline, Romulus' feet, and the beginning of the legend are still visible). Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Lanz, eBay, 29 April 2014. Colin Kraay, in 1974, was the first to explain such overstrikes, which seem to prove that two reverse dies were being applied alternately and at rapid speed at one and the same obverse die.. aVF Estimate: 300 USD |  |
