Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 2 Lot: 364 ROMAN EMPIRE. Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161). Gold aureus (7.29 gm). Rome, AD 152-153. IMP CAES T AEL HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, bare head left / TR POT XV COS IIII, togate, bare-headed emperor standing left, holding globe and roll. BMCRE 743A (same obverse die, illustrated pl. 16, 7 with another reverse type). Strack 235, pl. iii (same obverse die). Cf. Cohen 964 and RIC 213 (different busts). Rare left-facing obverse portrait, in very high relief. Mint state Ex Biaggi Collection. ...Sold for $11,000 USD [ approx 8360 EUR, 5830 GBP ] Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).