CNG 100, Lot: 1868. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.33 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bareheaded and draped bust right / VICTORI A AVG, Victory standing left, holding eagle with wreath in beak and palm frond. RIC II 284 var.; Strack 278 var. (same rev. die); Calicó 1397 var.; BMCRE 768 var. (same rev. die); Biaggi 665 var. (all with different obv. bust type). VF, some luster, traces of earthen deposits. Unpublished with this bust type.

According to Strack (pp. 132–9) and Mattingly (BMCRE p. cxlvi), the various Victory reverses on such late issues refer to the Roman victory in the Bar Kochba War in Judaea (132-135 AD).