Nice example @expat ANTONIUS PIUS AR Denarius OBVERSE: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, laureate head right REVERSE: TR POT XIX COS IIII, Annona standing left with corn ears & modius set on prow Struck at Rome 155/6AD 3.1g, 17mm RIC 249, C 983
Nice details on that one, thanks for sharing. I have to make a correction. The attribution is 738 NOT 728. I completely missed the lettering LIBERTY under Libertas on the reverse. Newbie disease strikes again, lol
Excellent coin! I have a couple of rough, yet interesting sesterti of this most boring of Emperors (lol)... Divus Antoninus Pius Bronze Sestertius 30mm (23.46 grams) Rome mint, struck circa 161 A.D. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, Reference: RIC III 1269 (Aurelius); Banti 144 DIVVS ANTONINVS, Bare head right. DIVO - PIO / S - C, Column of Antoninus Pius surmounted by statue of Pius holding eagle and scepter. The base of this pillar is on display at the Vatican.
Antoninus Pius (138-161). Denarius. Rome. 3.52gr, 17mm. Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XII. Laureate head right. Rev: COS IIII. Fortuna standing left with rudder set on globe, feeding serpent out of patera, serpent coiled around altar before her. RIC 181.
Denarius of Antoninus Pius. Reverse legend : TEMPLVM DIV(i) AVG(usti) REST(ituit): He restored the temple of the divine Augustus. Nothing is left of this temple that stood at the foot of the Palatine, near the temple of Castor and Pollux, but the place where it once stood was never excavated.
Here's the Sestertius version of the Augustus temple coin, in a much worse state, but nevertheless a good addition ANTONINUS PIUS.(138-161). Sestertius. Rome. AD 158-159 28 mm, 17.2 g ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate bust right / [TEMPL DIVI AVG] REST COS IIII SC, octastyle temple, with figure of Divus Augustus between two reclining figures on pediment, quadriga at top of roofline, acroteria (Romulus on left, Aeneas bearing Anchises on right) at bottom of roofline, and containing cult images of Divus Augustus and Diva Livia. Restored under Antoninus Pius in AD 158, the Temple of Divus Augustus housed seated statues of Augustus and Livia and was octastyle in the Corinthian order. RIC III Antoninus Pius 787
