108, Lot: 141. Estimate $100. Sold for $121. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. Æ As (26mm, 10.24 gm). Struck 134-138 AD. Bare-headed and draped bust right / ADVENTVI AVG MAVRETANIAE, Hadrian standing right, raising hand and holding roll, before lighted and garlanded altar over which Mauretania, standing left, wearing elephant's skin headdress, holding vexillum, holds patera; sacrificial calf left at feet. RIC II 900; BMCRE 1669; Cohen 68. VF, green patina, some light roughness.
From the Rudolf Berk Collection.