Watch List notes:

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.16 g, 6h). "Travel series" issue. Rome mint. Group 10, circa AD 130-133. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bareheaded and draped bust right / HIS PANIA, Hispania, draped, reclining left, holding up olive branch in right hand and resting left arm on rock; to left, a rabbit left. RIC II.3 1531 (same dies as illustration); RIC II 305; Strack 303ζο; Calicó 1272 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 843 (same dies); Biaggi 614 (this coin); Jameson –; Mazzini 824 (same dies). Toned, edge test cut. VF. Slightly higher grade reverse.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 49, 21 October 2008), lot 224.