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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, 155 AD, Denarius, 3.70g. Strack-281 (2 spec., both in Berlin). Obv: ANTONINVS AVG - PIVS P P TR P XVIII Bust laureate r. with fold of cloak on front shoulder and behind neck. Rx: COS - IIII on l. and r., Fortuna standing l., holding in r. hand cornucopia with tip turned from body, and in l. hand rudder on globe. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Lanz, eBay, 19 Feb. 2010. A rare "mirror-image" variant of this reverse type, with Fortuna standing left rather than right. Only two such specimens were known to Strack.. MS
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