Hadrian Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 130-133. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate and draped bust to right / ADVENTVI AVG IVDAEAE, Hadrian standing to right, holding scroll and raising hand, facing Judaea standing to left, holding patera over altar in centre and incense box, flanked by two children holding palms, bull at foot of altar; SC in exergue. RIC II.3 1768; BMCRE 1660; Hendin 1604. 19.22g, 30mm, 11h.
Very Fine; lightly smoothed and tooled(?). Very Rare.
From the collection of a European engineer.