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Numismatic Sale #114  –  20 May 2025

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Agora Auctions, Numismatic Sale #114

Ancient, Medieval and World Coins, Antiquities

Tu, 20.05.2025, from 6:00 PM CEST
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Description

Lydia, Sardes. Sabina. Augusta, A.D. 128-136/7. 22.3 mm, 8.24 g, 12 h). Wife of Hadrian. Α[ΒЄΙΝΑ] ЄΒΑ ΤΗ, draped bust of Sabina right, with hair coiled and piled on top of head above double stephane / ΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ, river god Hermos reclining left, naked to waist, himation over lower limbs, holding reed and cornucopia, behind, inverted vase from which water flows; ЄΡΜΟ in exergue. RPC III 2405; BMC 136; Sardis 287. VF. Rare.

Ex Roma E-sale 62, lot 647.

Sold for 130 British pounds October 17, 2019. However, this coins is quite attractive and rare. In this cataloguers opinion it is easily worth twice what it brought in the Roma e-sale.

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