Featured ANTONINVS before he was PIVS

Nice thread!......Don't know if you class this as early?....Within his first 6 years of reign....
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.

 

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Nice one, Spaniard!

Or perhaps I should say, "Oh, that's what one of those looks like." Earlier this month I got RIC 675 - it came in a lot with other coins I was interested in, so it wasn't technically something I was going for (how's that for an excuse?). It is so awful I am almost too embarrassed to post it, but since your nice one is here, what the heck:


Antoninus Pius Æ As
(140-144 A.D.)
Rome Mint
[ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP IMP TR P COS III], laureate head right / ANNO[NA AVG] S-C, Annona standing right, holding corn-ears & cornucopiae; modius to left, ship prow to right.
RIC III 675.

(10.92 grams / 26 mm)

 

@Marsyas Mike.......But yours is bigger than mine.....I actually find worn coins appealing, gives it that bit of unknown history...I'm a metal detectorist so quite often I come across Roman coins that have seen better days but find them just as intriguing.......Paul

 

...well post bond so it can get out

 

This is not too long ago, so I'll venture my latest acquisition which I also posted on Forum. It is so special that I want to show it to the whole world!
IMP CAES AELIVS - ANTONINVS AVG lareate head right / TRIB POT COS DES II . PIE-TAS / S-C Pietas offering standing right
The one standing left is RIC 523c and this one is RIC 524. There is one coin in Paris, one in the collection of Curtis Clay and this one!

Frans