Antoninus Pius

148 - 149 CE

  • As

  • Rome

  • Obverse: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII, laureate head right

    Reverse: MVNIFICENTA AVG Elephant advancing right, COS IIII S C in exergue.

  • 28mm, 13.6g

  • Cohen 565, RCV 4308.

  • Elaborate games were held in 147 AD to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the founding of Rome

    With an old European envelope with written description, on paper dated to Sept 27, 1927

  • v.IC.218.51524

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