205, Lot: 263. Estimate $100.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. 	

THRACE, Byzantium. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ 29mm (15.02 g, 7h). 
AVT KAICAP ANTWNIN-OC, laureate and draped bust right.
EPI TVXHC POLEWC BYZANTIWN (from top right), conical torch.

Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1382 var. (bust type); Varbanov 
1663 var. (ditto); 
Near VF, scratches, hard green encrustation in places. Bust 
type unrecorded in the standard references for this type.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.
Used with permission of CNG coins, www.cngcoins.com.