143 NGC VF Antoninus Pius Roman Empire AE As Sow Rome Foundation Myth (26062303C)

143 NGC VF Antoninus Pius Roman Empire AE As Sow Rome Foundation Myth (26062303C)Very Fine Roman Empire AE As coin. Struck for Emperor Antoninus Pius at the Rome Mint 143 CE. Rare Rome Foundation Myth reverse type. RIC 733, approx. 26mm. Certified by NGC to VF with no problems. Obverse: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right. Reverse: IMPERATOR II, sow right, under oak tree, four suckling piglets below, two more before; SC in exergue. This unusual type refers to one of the founding myths of Rome, the Lares

• Very Fine Roman Empire AE As coin.
• Struck for Emperor Antoninus Pius at the Rome Mint 143 CE.
• Rare Rome Foundation Myth reverse type.
• RIC 733, approx. 26mm. 
• Certified by NGC to VF with no problems.
• Obverse:  ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right.
• Reverse: IMPERATOR II, sow right, under oak tree, four suckling piglets below, two more before; SC in exergue.
• This unusual type refers to one of the founding myths of Rome, the Lares Grundules. In the Aeneid, Vergil describes how Aeneas sailed up the Tiber until he came across a great white sow nursing thirty piglets, which the hero regarded as a good omen. He consequently founded the town of Lavinium on the site, which later became the city of Rome.