Gemini, LLC > Auction VI | Auction date: 10 January 2010 |
Lot number: 819 | |
Lot description: Hadrian. 117-138 AD. AE 32, 22.30g. Koinon of Bithynia. Obv: AVT KAIΣ TPAI - AΔ[PIANOΣ] ΣEB Head laureate right. Rx: KOI - N[ON] across field, BEIΘVNIA[C] in exergue, Distyle temple; in center, Hadrian holding scepter; at right, Roma holding palm in left hand, crowning Hadrian with right; at left, female figure (Bithynia?) holding scepter; in pediment small figure sacrificing left before altar. Rec. Gen. 35. BM 10 var. Olive patination. Fine. MFA inventory no. 62.310. Purchased from from Edward Gans in 1962 by the Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoe Wilbour. Estimate: US$100 |