VESP AVG IMP CAESAR
facing Archbishop holding crozier and book
extremely fine and very rare this well preserved
gold Ecu D' Or a la Chaise
weakly struck in one part both sides
Antoninus Pius, Gold Aureus, Rome, AD 139. VESP AVG IMP CAESARAntoninus Pius (AD 138 161), gold Aureus, Rome, AD 139, ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, bare head right, rev. TR POT COS II, Pietas standing left, by altar, raising right hand and holding box of incense, 7. 35g, 6h (RIC III, 53a). Obverse edge scraped between 11 and 7 o'clock, small vertical scratch below exergual line, otherwise a highly attractive coin, about extremely fine and with underlying lustre.