CNG 99, Lot: 634. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Sabina. Augusta, AD 128-136/7. AV Aureus (19mm, 6.95 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Hadrian, circa AD 128-134. SABINA • AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG P P, draped bust right, wearing hair falling in plait down neck and rising on top in crest over stephane above diadem / CONCOR DIA AVG, Concordia seated left on throne, holding patera and resting arm on statue of Spes on low cippus; cornucopia below throne. RIC II 398 (Hadrian); cf. Strack 368b; Calicó 1428; BMCRE 897 (Hadrian); Biaggi 675 var. (no cornucopia below throne). VF, a few minor marks. Very rare.