Watch List notes:

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.33 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 118. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P COS II, CONCORD in exergue, Concordia, draped, seated left on throne, holding patera in extended right hand and resting left arm on statuette of Spes. RIC II 39a var. (cornucopia below throne); Strack 33η var. (same); Calicó 1205a var. (same–same obv. die as illustration); BMCRE 59 var. (same); Biaggi 581 var. (same). Near EF, underlying luster. Well executed portrait struck in high relief. The rare variety without cornucopia below throne.


Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Stack's Bowers & Ponterio 174, 11 January 2013), lot 5007.