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LOT 3117
Aelius, as Caesar AE Dupondius or As. AD 137.
Rome mint. L AELIVS CAESAR, bare head to right / TR POT COS II, Spes advancing to left, holding flower in right hand and raising skirt with left, S C across fields. RIC II.3 2700; BMCRE 1931 (Hadrian). Near Very Fine.(11.96gr, 25mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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