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Auction: 20106 - The Hardcastle Collection: Numismatic 'Pledges' to a Yorkshire Pawnbroker' e-Auction
Lot: 2615

The Hardcastle Collection | Roman Empire, Hadrian (117-138), AR Denarii, Rome, 'Imperial Tour' Series, struck c. AD 130-133 (2), HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bare head right, rev. ALEXAN-DRIA, Alexandria standing left, 3.00g (RIC II³ 1502; RSC 154), around fine, and an historic issue commemorating Hadrian's visit to Alexandria in AD 130/131, the year of the fateful expedition in which his 'companion' Antinous drowned in the Nile; another, similar, laureate head right, rev. AEGYPTOS, personification reclining left (RIC II, 297), ragged edges, almost fine (2)

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