CNG 94, Lot: 159. HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AV Aureus 
(19mm, 6.93 gm). Posthumous issue, struck under 
Antoninus Pius, July-October 138 AD. Estimate 
$3000. Sold for $1980. 

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AV Aureus (19mm, 6.93 gm). 
Posthumous issue, struck under Antoninus Pius, 
July-October 138 AD. Youthful, bare bust right, 
wearing aegis / Hadrian standing left, extending 
hand and holding spear; three military standards 
behind. RIC II 204b (same obverse die); Strack 
331Do; BMCRE 530 (same obverse die); cf. Hunter 
180 (older bare head right, slight drapery on 
left shoulder); Hill, Undated pp. 78-9, and 
"Abnormal Hadrianic Portraits," in NumCirc 1966, 
pp. 177-9; Calicó 1239; Cohen 485. Near VF, ex 
jewelry. Very rare.
Closed June 9, 2004.

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