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326, Lot: 473. Estimate $100.
Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.89 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 117. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder, balteus over near shoulder / Concordia seated left, holding patera with her right hand, left arm rests on a statuette of Spes; cornucopia below throne. RIC II 4b var. (without balteus); RSC 250 var. (same). VF, lightly toned, small flan crack, a couple of scratches in obverse field. Well centered.


From the Demetrios Armounta Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 180 (23 January 2008), lot 224.

This rare portrait type shows Hadrian wearing a balteus, a belt used to suspend a sword.