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Contributor: Matthew Geary.
Issuer:
ANTONINUS PIUS
, AD 138-161. AR Denarius. Struck in 143/4 AD.
Obverse:
ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS P.P. TR.P. COS III., his laureate head of facing right.
Reverse:
IMPERATOR II, Victory standing left, holding wreath in right hand, palm branch in left.
Reference:
RIC 111b; RSC-437. Grade: VF.
Comments:
For more information, read the "
Antoninus Pius
" entry from
De Imperatoribus Romanis
.
For recent scholarship on Antoninus Pius see
TOCS-IN
; for book reviews, see
Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews
.