Antoninus Pius. 40-as

Antoninus Pius; 138-161 AD, Rome, 148 AD, As, 11.62g. Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PI - VS P P TRP XI Head laureate r. Rs: As on obverse, but from a different die, and with most of the legend worn away. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Silenos, eBay, 11 March 2007. Apparently unpublished with this TR P XI legend; cf. BMC p. 369 and Strack p. 325. Curtis Clay has proposed that such double-headed asses may have been used as New Year's gifts; see Num. Chronicle 172, 2012, pp. 359-361.. Fine