Details
LOT 2778
Hadrian AE 32mm of the Koinon of Bithynia. Circa AD 117-138.
Uncertain Koinon mint, possibly Nicomedia. AVT KAIC TPAI AΔPIANOC CЄB, laureate head to right / KOI-NON BEIΘH(?)NIAC, octastyle temple on podium of two steps, pellet between middle columns, figure in the pediment; below, prow. Cf. RPC III, 1017; cf. RG 38. Near Very Fine.(20.93gr, 32mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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