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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Conduitt, post: 7810469, member: 109923&quot;]Really nice coin. The reverse is sharp too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a couple of coins of Antoninus Pius. Not an aureus unfortunately, but he&#039;s a more affordable emperor and often has great-looking coins. One of mine is my avatar (an as featuring Britannia).</p><p><br /></p><p>The other is a denarius from the Westbury Sub Mendip Hoard. Many of the other coins in the hoard had to be cleaned to the point of losing their patina, but not this one.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Antoninus Pius Denarius, 158-9</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1341647[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Rome. Silver, 3.11g. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P. <b>Antoninus Pius, veiled, togate as a priest, sacrificing out of patera over tripod-altar, and holding roll; beside altar, a prostrate, slain bull, </b>VOTA SOL DEC II, COS IIII (RIC III 291). </b>From the Westbury Sub Mendip (Somerset) Hoard of 188 silver denarii covering 225 years from Mark Antony to Septimius Severus, found 2016.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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