Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1139. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SABINA, wife of Hadrian Augusta, 128-136 AD. AR Denarius (3.11 gm, 7h). Struck circa 128-134 AD. SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG P P, diademed and draped bust right, hair in plaited coil on crown of head / Anepigraphic, Vesta seated left on ornate throne, feet on footstool, holding palladium in outstretched right hand and cradling long sceptre in left arm. RIC II 413a (Hadrian); Strack 364a; BMCRE 925 (Hadrian); RSC 85. Near EF, a couple of hairline flan cracks. ($1000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 871.