399, Lot: 501. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous issues. temp. Hadrian–Antoninus Pius, AD 117-161. Æ Quadrans (13mm, 2.46 g, 6h). Rome mint. Diademed and draped bust of Venus right / Dove standing right. RIC II (1st edition) 24; Cohen –. VF, reddish-brown surfaces, some roughness.

The series of Imperial-era anonymous quadrantes portrays eleven deities: Jupiter, Minerva, Roma, Neptune, Tiber, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Mercury, Bacchus/Liber, and Hercules, as well as the Four Seasons. They invariably depict either a portrait on the obverse and an attribute of the deity on the reverse, or otherwise an attribute on either side. These designs appear to be influenced, but not directly copied from, earlier designs of the Republican period.