Ex Wyprächtiger and Niggeler Collections

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1091. Estimate $2000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.35 g, 6h). Travel series. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head left / Hadrian, in military attire, standing right, left foot on prow, holding reversed spear in right hand and parazonium in left. RIC II 294 var. (laureate head right); Strack 291 var. (same); RSC 1503 var. (same); BMCRE 785A var. (same). EF, toned. Fine style. Apparently unique variety.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Kurt P. Wyprächtiger Collection; Sternberg I (30 November 1973), lot 148; Walter Niggeler Collection (Part III, Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, 2 December 1967), lot 1266; Münzen und Medaillen XVII (2 December 1957), lot 455.