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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Adoptive Emperors| > |Antoninus Pius| > RS94707
Antoninus Pius, August 138 - 7 March 161 A.D.
|Antoninus| |Pius|, |Antoninus| |Pius,| |August| |138| |-| |7| |March| |161| |A.D.|, The palladium, a small figure of Minerva (Pallas Athena) holding a spear and shield, had a mythological origin from Troy. Troy was believed to be safe from foreign enemies as long as the palladium remained within the city walls. But Odysseus and Diomedes stole the image and soon after the Greeks took the city. The palladium was later taken by Aeneas to Rome where for centuries it was kept in the temple of Vesta in the Forum. In Late Antiquity, it was rumored that Constantine had taken the palladium to Constantinople and buried it under the Column of Constantine.
RS94707. Silver denarius, RIC III 238, RSC II 201, BMCRE IV 829, Strack III 282, Hunter II 98, SRCV II -, VF, nice portrait, obverse well centered on tight flan, strong radiating flow lines, edge ragged with flan cracks, Rome mint, weight 2.779g, maximum diameter 19.0mm, die axis 180o, 154 - 155 A.D.; obverse ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XVIII, laureate head right; reverse COS IIII, Vesta standing left, sacrificing from patera in right hand over flaming altar at feet on left, palladium in left hand and cradled in left arm; from the Ray Nouri Collection; SOLD











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