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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 2211. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005. 
Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Medals] UNCERTAIN. Hadrian, by an uncertain artist. 117-138 AD. Æ Medal (38mm, 40.76 gm, 12h). Laureate half-length bust right, wearing aegis / Victory driving biga right, holding reins and whip. Pond-Rothman, "Posthumous Hadrianic Medallions," ANSMN 23 (1978), pl. 18, 2; Gnecchi 15 (pl. 38, 9); Toynbee Plate XL, 2. VF, red-brown and black patina, light smoothing in fields. Attractive portrait. ($1000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Henry Hoffer Collection (Harmer, Rooke, 12-13 December 1986), lot 949; Giorgi Collection (Ratto, 26 January 1955).