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LOT 3368
Antoninus Pius AE Sestertius. AD 140-144. Rome mint.
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head to right / ANNONA AVG, Annona standing facing, head to right, holding cornucopiae and grain-ears over modius; prow of ship in background; S C across fields. RIC III 597; C. 34; BMCRE 1226. Near Very Fine.(27.69gr, 33mm, 12h.).
Provenance
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
