Two Rare Mines Issues

298, Lot: 163. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Quadrans (18mm, 3.99 g, 6h). Noricum Mines issue. Rome mint. Struck AD 119-138. Laureate head right / MET/ NOR in two lines within laurel wreath. RIC II 1011. VF, tan-brown surfaces, minor porosity. Rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Harvey J. Hoffer Collection (Harmer Rooke, 12 December 1986), lot 947.