Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 2 Lot: 615

ROMAN IMPERIAL. Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161). Gold aureus 
(6.92 gm). Rome, AD 140-144. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, 
bust laureate, draped right / TR POT COS III, emperor as 
Romulus advancing right, holding spear with points at 
both ends and trophy over shoulder. BMCRE 238 note. 
Strack 71 (this variant in Paris and Vienna). Bust 
variant of Cohen 910 and RIC 90 (S). Rare. From 
the same dies as M�nzhandlung Basel 3 (Prince Waldeck, 
1935), lot 482, the specimen cited in BMCRE 238 note. 

Ex Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acquired in 1975 through 
the Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Zoe Wilbour. 

Sold for $1,300 USD [ approx 988 EUR, 689 GBP ] 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 
Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
                      and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).