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Triton XXV  11-12 Jan 2022
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Lot 898

Estimate: 7500 USD
Price realized: 17 000 USD
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Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 24.82 g, 6h). "Travel series" issue ("Provinces cycle") – Adventus type. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 130-133. [HADRI]ANVS AVG COS III [P P], bare head right / S C across field, IVDAEA in exergue (sic) = adventus type, Hadrian, togate, standing right, raising right hand in gesture of address and holding volumen in left, facing Judaea, draped, standing left, sacrificing with patera in right hand over altar, placed in the center, and also holding an acerrum. At her feet stand three children each holding a palm frond, two to the left and one to the right; victim (bull) at foot of altar. RIC II.3 1775; Strack 718δο; Banti 461; Hendin 6637; BMCRE 1757. Brown surfaces, a few deposits. Near VF. Very rare.

From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection, purchased from Herb Kreindler, October 1994.
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