Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 774. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $455. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SABINA, wife of Hadrian. Augusta, 128-136/7 AD. Æ As (9.79 g, 6h). Struck circa 128-134 AD. Diademed and draped bust right / Ceres seated left on basket, holding grain ears and torch. RIC II 1023 (Hadrian); BMCRE 1901 (Hadrian); cf. Cohen 70 (Dupondius). VF, chocolate brown surfaces, area of minor roughness, partial flat strike. Attractive portrait style. ($300)

Ex Davissons 15 (29 March 2001), lot 132.