Antoninus She Wolf Boat

ANTONINUS PIUS, 138-161 AD. Æ As, 10.84, 25mm
Minted 143-144 AD.
OBV: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right
REV: IMPERATOR II S-C, wolf suckling twins, boat in ex. Cohen 448.
RIC.734, Cohen 448.
This reverse type comes in two variants, with the she-wolf either looking straight ahead, or turning her head back to look at the twins, as on this coin. This second variant is definitely the scarcer of the two: not represented in our Forvms photofile, nor in CoinArchives according to my (Curtis Clay) perhaps inadequate search. Strack 945 lists five museum specimens and one in an auction catalogue, apparently all that he knew, meaning that this variant is missing from the rich collections in Paris and Vienna.

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