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LOT 3126
Antoninus Pius AE As. AD 138-161.
Rome mint; struck AD 140-144. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head to right / IMPERA-TOR II, Victory advancing to left, holding shield inscribed BRI-TAN; S C across lower fields. RIC III 732; Cohen 442. Very Fine. Beautiful dark cypress-green patina.(11.49gr, 28mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
Footnotes
Antoninus Pius received his second imperial acclamation, as recorded in this coin's reverse legend (IMPERATOR II), for the victory by his governor in Britannia, Q. Lollius Urbicus, over the Brigantes. It was Urbicus who also constructed the Antonine Wall in Scotland between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde, which was to be the northernmost frontier barrier of the Roman Empire.
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