| Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. > Buy or Bid Sale 227 | Auction date: 14 May 2024 |
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| Lot description: Antoninus Pius. Sestertius; Antoninus Pius; 138-161 AD, Rome, 151-2 AD, Sestertius, 23.14g. Strack-pl. XIII, 1056 (same dies). Obv: IMP CAES T AEL HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P Head laureate r. Rx: TR POT XII[II] / COS IIII in two lines in exergue, S - C across field, eight-columned temple between two palm trees, within two seated facing figures, doubtless Divus Hadrian and Diva Sabina. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Lucernae, eBay, 5 July 2010. From the same dies as the Paris specimen, the only one known to Strack. The temple type probably commemorates Antoninus' completion of his temple for Divus Hadrian and Diva Sabina at about the time the coins were struck in 151-2 AD; at the same time and for the same reason, Antoninus also added Hadrian's names to his obverse legend, first just T AEL and then, in a much larger and longer issue, T AEL HADR. See the commentary to our preceding lot. VF / aEF Estimate: 1200 USD |  |
