Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.11 g, 12h). “Travel series” issue. Rome mint. Group 10, circa AD 130-133. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bareheaded and draped bust left / AFRICA, Africa, draped, wearing elephant-skin headdress, reclining left, placing right hand on neck of lion standing left, and resting left arm on basket of fruits; to right of basket, two stalks of grain. RIC II.3 1490 (same dies as illustration); RIC II 298; Strack 296 1/ζ ο; Calicó 1194 (same obv. die as illustration); BMCRE 810 (same dies); Biaggi 578 (same obv. die); Jameson –; Mazzini –. Toned, some scratches and contact marks, scrape on reverse. Near EF.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Lanz 145 (with Bernardi, 5 January 2009), lot 145, acquired from Peus in 1951.