Details
LOT 3349
Hadrian AR Denarius. AD 133-135. Rome mint.
HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bare head to right / SALVS AVG, Salus standing to right, feeding out of patera snake coiled around altar. RIC II.3 2047; BMCRE 719; RSC 1334. Good Very Fine.(3.53gr, 17mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
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