Watch List notes:

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.08 g, 6h). "Travel series" issue. Rome mint. Group 10, circa AD 130-133. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bareheaded bust left, slight drapery / RESTITVTORI ACHAIAE, Hadrian, bareheaded, togate, standing left, holding volumen in left hand and extending right to raise up Achaea, draped, kneeling right; in center, palm frond in vase. RIC II.3 1564 (this coin cited and illustrated); RIC II 321 var. (bust type); Strack 3171/δο (this coin cited); Calicó 1347 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 868, note; Biaggi 648 var. (same; same rev. die); Jameson –; Mazzini 1214 var. (same; same rev. die). Scratches on reverse, edge test. EF. Rare with this bust type.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 52 (7 October 2009), lot 433; LHS 97 (10 May 2006), lot 21; Hymen Montagu Collection (Rollin & Feuardent, 20 April 1896), lot 303.