I just picked up this really nice A Pi as. Oddly enough, my entire collection has a grand total of 3 asses, all rather low quality and ugly. So when I got this one in hand I was blown away! Antoninus Pius AE As 27mm, 9.4g ANTONINVSAVGPI VSPPTRPCOSIII. Laureate head right. IMPERA TORII. Jupiter seated left, holding thunderbolt and staff. RIC 727 I couldn't find a statue of Zeus with a thunderbolt in hand, but the Marbury Hall Zeus from the Getty Villa is a pretty good match for this standard statuary type. Please post your Antoninus Pius asses
Very nice. He has a very pleasing portrait even when worn, unlike many of the other 1-2 century emperors. I only have one coin of Antoninus Pius and it's an as. It's also my best as, the others being very worn (as most of my coins from the 1-2 centuries are): Antoninus Pius As, 154-155 Rome or Britain. Bronze, 8.63g. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XVIII. BRITANNIA - COS IIII, SC in exergue (RIC III 934).
That's a nice coin @hotwheelsearl, here's my only as of Antoninus Pius. Antoninus Pius AE As, Rome ninth century celebration 148 – 149 A.D. Obverse: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII; laureate head right Reverse: MVNIFICENTIA AVG COS IIII S-C; Munificentia standing left, holding wreath and sceptre: at feet; lion. RIC IV Rome 861
Yours is RIC 727... mine is 728. After I bought this coin and tried to correctly attribute it, I discovered to my surprise that it is in fact THE wilwinds plate coin ! Antoninus Pius Ae As 27mm 9.7g ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP TRP COS III IMPERATOR II S-C Libertas holding pileus & rod RIC 728
ANTONIUS PIUS AR Didrachm OBVERSE: ANTWNEI-NOC CEBACTOC, laureate head right REVERSE: YPAT B PAT PATR, Helios, holding globe and sceptre, standing atop Mt. Argaeus; * in exergue Struck at Caesaria, Cappadocia, 139 AD 6.2g, 21mm Syd 301c
Æ As with Salus In 144 AD Antoninus Pius was seriously ill, he seemed to be dying. Coinage was dedicated to his health. Antoninus died fifteen years later. 25 x 27 mm, 10.822 g Rome, 151 - 152 AD RIC III Antoninus Pius 900a; Cohen 729; The years 151 - 152 AD were the occasion when Antoninus celebrated his third “quinquennalia”. Ob.: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XV laureate head of Antoninus Pius to r. Rev.: SALVS AVG, Salus standing l., holding scepter in l. hand and patera in r. hand, feeding a snake coiled around altar. In ex. COS IIII across field S - C
An As from a lot. Some details still available, unfortunately cannot narrow down to RIC number. It's either RIC III Antoninus Pius 957 or 972 (TR POT XIX COS IIII S C or TR POT XX)
@hotwheelsearl....Nice pick up. Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. AE As (9.86 gm, 25.5mm). Rome mint. Struck 140-144 AD. Obverse: ANTONINVS AVG PI VS PP TRP COS III, laureate head right. Reverse: ANNONA AVG, S-C, Annona standing right, holding grain ears over modius in right hand, cornucopia in left; at feet to right, prow right. RIC III 675. VF.
My only Antoninus Pius Imperial bronze. It has a very rough surface, but elephants make up for a lot of sins. Antoninus Pius AE As, 148 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII / Rev. Elephant walking left, MV-NIFICENTIA AVG; in exergue COS IIII/S C in two lines. RIC III 863, Sear RCV II 4308 (var.), BMCRE 1840. 29 mm., 10.4 g. (Issued to commemorate games and spectacles held to celebrate 900th anniversary of Rome.)
