Watch List notes:

Diva Sabina. Died AD 136/7. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.10 g, 6h). Consecration issue. Rome mint. Group 6, after 25 February AD 138. DIVA • AVG SABINA, veiled and draped bust right, wearing stephanie / CO NSE CRAT IO, Sabina, with scarf floating out behind head, holding scepter, born aloft right by eagle, with head turned left, holding scepter in talons. RIC II.3 2603 (same dies as second illustration); RIC II 418a (Hadrian); Abdy, Chronology, Final Group; Strack 383d; Calicó 1432 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 956 (same dies); Biaggi 677 (this coin); Jameson –; Mazzini –. A few minor marks. VF. Very rare.


Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 49, 21 October 2008), lot 232; Hess-Leu [3] (27 March 1956), lot 385.