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Antoninus Pius, As, R/ BRITANNIA COS IIII SC
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Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. As. Struck 154/5 AD
AE, 10,13 gr., 23 mm, MB
D/ ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XVIII, laureate and draped bust right
R/ BRITANNIA COS IIII, Britannia seated left on rock, resting head upon hand; shield and vexillum(?) in background before her. SC in exergue.
RIC III 934; BMCRE 1971.
Note: "Probably struck in Britain from dies made in Rome" (Seaby's and to a 1966 article in the Numismatic Chronicle)
Provenance: ex Bart Lewis collection (La Vegas, NV,Usa). Purchased in August 2012
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