ID help for Antoninus small brass

[gb29400]

thanks for your help,

13 mm, 2.98 g

head of Antoninus right
R/ 4 corn ears and poppy

thanks
Guy

[slokind]

RIC 713 (S).  But it looks like copper to me, and it ought to be copper.
Pat L.

[Steve Minnoch]

Are you sure Pat?  This coin does seem to have some large letters to the right of the head, far too large to fit a legend ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P.  Some weird overstrike?

Steve

[slokind]

I'm not sure.  I just looked in the plates for RIC and found a quadrans, used the Index for the plates which took me to that one, and there, directly preceding it, was the grain ears and poppy, no. 713.  Actually, I was more interested in its being copper.  I've been told of the small change being struck also outside of Rome, but for Antoninus I don't know, so I leave it to you.
It's a nice coin, though.
Pat L.

[gb29400]

Thanks ,

the metal is brass and the coin surely provincial.

But where from? Alexandria?

Guy

[wandigeaux (1940 - 2010)]

But, surely, at the time of Pius a provincial would have an ethnic on the reverse, and a coin from Alexandria a regnal year?  Not much room, of course.  George Spradling

[Steve Minnoch]

I wouldn't take the identification as Pius as a given.  It doesn't look any more like him than a number of others in my opinion.

Nothing in RPC I, II or online seems related.

I seem to read AVG F on the right hand side of the head (reading anticlockwise) but it could easy be an illusion.

Steve