Watch List notes:

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.31 g, 6h). Rome mint. Group 4, circa AD 124-125. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate bust right, slight drapery / COS III, Sol, radiate, naked but for cloak on left arm, holding reins, and mounting quadriga right. RIC II.3 725 (same dies as illustration); RIC II 167 (same rev. die as illustation); Strack 163α; Calicó 1207 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 377 (same dies); Biaggi 582 (this coin); Jameson –; Mazzini –. A few scratches, scattered marks. EF.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 38 (21 March 2007), lot 57; Conte Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part III, Santamaria, 26 June 1950), lot 302; Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 582; M. L. Vierordt Collection (Schulman, 5 March 1923), lot 1293.