Calicó Plate Coin

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3307. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $9250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (6.89 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 118. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FORT RED in exergue, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia. RIC II 41; Calicó 1259 (this coin). Good VF, faint hairlines, traces of deposits. Wonderful portrait.

From the John A. Seeger Collection. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 758.