Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1494. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $455. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SABINA, wife of Hadrian. Augusta, 128-136/7 AD. Æ Dupondius or As (10.40 gm). Struck circa 128-134 AD. Diademed and draped bust left, wearing wreath of grain ears, hair bound in queue / Concordia seated left on throne, holding patera and leaning on figure of Spes standing left on cippus. RIC II 1037 (Hadrian); BMCRE 1893 (Hadrian); Cohen 23. VF, dark green-brown patina, light smoothing in fields. Attractive bust. ($300)