Antoninus Pius S C Jupiter

Antoninus Pius, August 138 - 7 March 161 A.D.

Obverse:
laureate bust right, very slight drapery on left shoulder

ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III

ANTONINVS: Antonius
AVG: Augustus, emperor
PIVS: PIUS
P P: PP: Pater Patria, father of the country
TR P: Tribunicia Potestate. The tribunician power, the emperor as civil head of the state.
COS. III: Consul for the third time. One of the two chief magistrates of the Roman state, and often the emperor was one.

Reverse:

S C: Senatus Consulto, by Decree of the Senate

DES IIII
COS DES IIII indicating the Emperor had been designated to serve his fourth consulship starting on the first day of the new year

DES:
IIII:

Jupiter seated left on a facing throne, thunderbolt in right, long scepter vertical in left

Domination: Copper AS, size 25 mm

Mint: Rome mint, very end of 144 A.D