Watch List notes:

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.17 g, 6h). "Travel series" issue. Rome mint. Group 10, circa AD 130-133. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ADVEN TVI AVG ITALIAE, Hadrian, bareheaded, togate, standing right, raising right hand and holding volumen in left; to right, Italia standing left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over lighted and garlanded altar in center and holding concucopia in left hand. RIC II.3 1562 (same dies as illustration); RIC II 320 var. (bust type); Strack 316βο (same dies as illustration); Calicó 1176a (same dies as illustration); cf. BMCRE 788-92; Biaggi 573-4 var. (same; same rev. die); Jameson –; Mazzini –. Lightly toned, minor edge marks. Near EF. Rare.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 87 (8 October 2015), lot 247; Sotheby's (9 October 1995), lot 303.