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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 24647207, member: 85693&quot;]I think I might&#039;ve just got one like this last month.&nbsp; As as, with Annona.&nbsp; AP&#039;s coins of this era are interesting because he uses the old &quot;Hadrian&quot; titles from the beginning of his reign.&nbsp; See note below.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the OCRE listing - with 22 examples - it seems this was a big issue!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.880" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.880" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.880</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is quite light, but some of these seem to lose weight as they are chemically leached under ground.&nbsp; It looks fairly &quot;official&quot; to me, but I&#039;m no expert.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine; it is rough, but it does deserve better photos - it is not quite <i>this</i> bad:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1568929[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Antoninus Pius&nbsp; Æ As</b></p><p><b>(151-152 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP CAES T AEL HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate head right&nbsp; / TR POT XIIII COS IIII, S-C | ANNONA AVG in exergue, Annona seated l. holding corn-ears over modius with corn-ears and cornucopiae.</p><p>(10.02 grams / 25 x 23 mm)</p><p>eBay June 2023 </p><p><b>Attribution: </b>RIC III 880; Cohen RSC 49; BMCRE 1875-1877.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The imperial title &#039;IMP CAES T AEL HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS&#039;, is only found in the period AD 150-152, the 15th anniversary of the reign or immediately prior to it. It refers to the earliest imperial title of A. Pius &#039;IMP T AEL CAES HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS&#039; used on coins issued in AD 138-139.&quot;</p><p>Charles S on FORVM[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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