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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Adoptive Emperors| > |Antoninus Pius| > RB92440
Antoninus Pius, August 138 - 7 March 161 A.D.
|Antoninus| |Pius|, |Antoninus| |Pius,| |August| |138| |-| |7| |March| |161| |A.D.|, Annona was the goddess of harvest and her main attribute is grain. This reverse suggests the arrival of grain by sea from the provinces (especially from Africa) and its distribution to the people.
RB92440. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC III 597(a), Hunter II 193, BMCRE IV 1226, Cohen II 34, SRCV II 4147 var. (draped), VF, excellent portrait, well centered on a tight flan, light marks, porous, Rome mint, weight 27.350g, maximum diameter 31.5mm, die axis 180o, 140 - 144 A.D.; obverse ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right; reverse ANNONA AVG, Annona standing slightly right, stalks of grain pointed downward in her right, cornucopia in left hand with top inward, modius at feet left, prow of galley at feet on right, S - C (senatus consulto) across field just below center; from the Errett Bishop Collection; SOLD




  






REFERENCES

Schaaff, Ulrich. Münzen der römischen Kaiserzeit mit Schiffsdarstellungen im Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseum. (Munich, 2003).

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