From the Gemini V Auction, Closed January 6, 2009. Lot # 276, Estimate: US$100 Antoninus Pius. (138-161 AD). Orichalcum sestertius (25.38 gm). Rome, 149-150 AD. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII, head laureate right / VOTO (sic) in exergue, COS IIII around, S C in field, togate Genius of the Senate standing left, sacrificing from patera over tripod altar and holding roll. BMCRE 1826A. RIC 856 var. Cohen 1100 var (6 Fr.). Fine/about extremely fine. Displayed at Cincinnati Art Museum, 1994-2008, no. 148. This coin exhibits the die engraver’s error VOTO for VOTA in reverse legend and presumably is from the same reverse die as the unillustrated BMCRE 1826A, which exhibits the same error. Our variety of the type, with the Genius of the Senate, bare-headed and with his typical coiffure, instead of the veiled emperor sacrificing at the tripod altar, may be rare with the date TR P XII. Strack, who was the first to distinguish the two varieties, lists the Genius of the Senate type only with TR P XI, not with TR P XII: see his p. 138 and nos. 181, 186, and 1014. Lot 276 sold for high bid of $240 [ $276, or approx 204.24 EUR, 187.68 GBP including the 15% buyers premium.] Gemini Auctions' results, text and images are re-used by the kind permission of: Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com)