Watch List notes:

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (17.5mm, 7.14 g, 6h). "Travel series" issue. Rome mint. Group 10, circa AD 130-133. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bareheaded and draped bust right / RESTITVTORI AFRICAE, Hadrian, bareheaded, togate, standing left, holding volumen in left hand and extending right to raise up Africa, who holds grain ears in left hand and wears elephant-skin headdress; in center, two stalks of grain. RIC II.3 1568 (same dies as illustration); RIC II 322; Strack 318ζο; Calicó 1349 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 870 (same dies); Biaggi 649 (same dies); Jameson –; Mazzini 1222 and 1222* (same dies). Toned, earthen deposits. VF. Rare.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Stack's Bowers and Ponterio 174, 11 January 2013), lot 5060; Hausman Collection; "Property of a Lady" (Christie's, 9 October 1984), lot 38.