275, Lot: 100. Estimate $150. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (26mm, 11.46 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. Bare head right / AEGYPTOS, Egypt reclining left, holding sistrum and resting elbow on basket of grain; at feet, ibis standing right on column . RIC II 839 var. (bust). VF, brown patina, porosity.
Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 158; V. J. E. Ryan Collection (Glendining's, 2 April 1952), lot 2775.