Exceptional Sabina

497690.

Sold For $5250

Sabina. Augusta, AD 128-136/7. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.52 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Hadrian, circa AD 134-136. SABINA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right, wearing fillet, hair in queue down neck / VENERI GENETRICI, Venus standing right, drawing out fold of drapery from her shoulder and holding an apple. RIC II 396 (Hadrian); Strack 380; RSC 73; BMCRE 944 (Hadrian). Superb EF, lightly toned, with lustrous fields.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 80 (20 October 2014), lot 95; Aureo & Calico 252 (28 May 2013), lot 53.