Mazzini Plate Coin

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 602. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (3.39 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 117. IMP CAES TRAIAN HADRIAN OPT AVG GER DAC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PARTHIC DIVI TRAIAN AVG P M TR P COS P P, ADOPTIO in exergue, Trajan and Hadrian standing vis-à-vis, clasping hands, holding rolls in left. RIC II 3e; Strack 2; RSC 4c; BMCRE 7; Mazzini 4 (this coin). EF, toned. Struck with fresh dies. Exceptional.

From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 541; Leu 30 (28 April 1982), lot 359; Mazzini Collection, 4.