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Unpublished Bust Variety of a Rare Type

LOT 2873

Sold for (Inc. bp): £33


Hadrian AE As. AD 117-138.

Rome mint; struck AD 130-133. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head to right; drapery on far shoulder / CAPP-A-DOCIA, Cappadocia, wearing turreted headdress, standing to left, holding Mount Argaeus and vexillum; S C across fields. RIC II.3 - (unrecorded bust type) (cf. 1641-1647); BMCRE - (same) (cf. 1729-1734). 11.18gr, 27mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine. Unrecorded bust type.

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Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

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