Hadrian’s Earliest Provincial Coin

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3144. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ 23mm (10.40 g, 12h). Dated CY 227 (August-September AD 117). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Europa seated facing, head right, on bull galloping right, holding billowing veil and bull’s horn; date to upper left. Rouvier 1473 var. (bust type); BMC 224; cf. AUB 232-233. VF, brown surfaces. Hadrian’s first provincial issue.

From the John A. Seeger Collection.