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Buy or Bid Sale 227  14 May 2024
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Antoninus Pius. Denarius; Antoninus Pius; 138-161 AD, Rome, 151 AD, Denarius, 2.85g. Strack-228. Obv: IMP CAES T AEL ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P Head laureate r. Rx: TRANQ in exergue, [T]R POT XIIII - COS IIII on l. and r., Tranquillitas standing r. holding wheat ears and rudder. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Ancient Auction House, 14 Dec. 2003. A rare early variant of this type, with HADR not yet added to the obverse legend but TRANQ already appearing in the reverse exergue. There was only one specimen of this denarius in the Reka Devnia hoard, with TRANQ in reverse exergue according to the publication.. toned virtually ms
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