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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 122

(x) The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of Numismatic Portraits from Medieval Flanders and Tudor England | Roman Empire, Hadrian (117-138), Æ Sestertius, AD 118, Rome, IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder, rev. PONT MAX TR POT COS II, Roma helmeted and seated right on cuirass, holding spear and clasping hands with togate Hadrian standing to left, ADVENTVS AVG SC in exergue, 22.63g [349.4grns], 6h (RIC II, Part 3, 158 [RIC II 547]; Cohn 91; BMCRE 1123), slightly porous surfaces, otherwise green-brown patina, a really good very fine / very fine, the portrait of Hadrian especially bold

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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£350