From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008. Lot # 425 Realized: US$5000 Antoninus Pius. (138-161 AD). Gold aureus (7.23 gm). Rome, 140 AD. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, bust bare-headed, draped, cuirassed right, seen from behind TR POT in exergue, COS III above, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Caesar as joint consuls of 140, seated left on curule chairs on platform, each extending right hand, attended by two lictors standing on ground to left and right respectively of the platform, each holding wand and fasces. Strack 68 (Paris, Rome); Cohen 913 (Paris); Calico 1652 (citing Cohen); RIC 92 (R2, citing Cohen). Extremely rare. Apparently only the third recorded specimen after those in Paris and Rome reported by Strack; © 2005-2008 Gemini, LLC Lot 425 sold for $5000 [$5750, 3967.5 EUR, 2932.5 GBP Gemini Auctions' results, text and images are re-used by the kind permission of: Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com)