Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Dupondius (26mm, 13.16 g, 12h). "Travel series" issue ("Provinces cycle") – The province alone. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 130-133. Laureate and draped bust right / NILVS, Nilus reclining left, holding cornucopia and reed, leaning on rock; to left, hippopotamus standing right; below, iin water, crocodile right. RIC II.3 1713. Brown patina, roughness. VF.
From the Dr. Michael Slavin Collection. Ex Berk inventory cc15012; Kovacs X (18 May 1990), lot 410.