The Robert O. Ebert Collection

298, Lot: 91. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous. Circa 217-215 BC. Æ Uncia (26mm, 12.31 g, 11h). Semi-Libral standard. Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma left; • (mark of value) behind / Prow of galley right; • (mark of value) below. Crawford 38/6; Sydenham 86. VF, green patina, some old scratches on the obverse, a few small breaks in the patina.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.

CNG is pleased to present selections from the Robert O. Ebert Collection, previously offered in its entirety by Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio. An Ohio native, Bob was a successful engineer and businessman, working for Rubbermaid before developing his own blow molding business, as well as a generous supporter of education and the arts. As a collector of coins, Bob concentrated on the Roman series. In particular, he focused on the coinage of Hadrian and over time assembled one of the most important private collections of the emperor’s coins, rivaling the great collection of Harvey J. Hoffer, from which a number of the coins offered below come from. The specialized collector will find a number of rarities from Hadrian’s reign, unillustrated in the Stack’s Bowers and Poterio catalogue, including rare Noricum and Pincum mines issues (lots 163-164), the sole Roman bronze issue dated from the foundation of Rome (lot 165), the second known EXERCITVS ALEXANDRINVS sestertius (lot 237), a very rare EXERCITVS SYRIACVS sestertius (lot 238), as well as a number of unpublished varieties. Of course, Hadrian is best known for his extensive travels throughout the Roman Empire, which was celebrated on his coinage, and the present section contains a variety of issues from the travel series.