★ Ex Biaggi, Mazzini, and Magnaguti Collections ★

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.27 g, 6h). “Travel series” issue. Rome mint. Group 10, circa AD 130-133. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bareheaded and draped bust left / ΛDVENTVI AFRICΛE, Hadrian, bareheaded, togate, standing right, raising right hand and holding volumen in left; to right, Africa, draped, wearing elephant-skin headdress, standing left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over tripod in center and holding grain ears in left hand; prostrate calf between tripod and Africa. RIC II.3 1552 ( this coin cited ; same dies as illustration); cf. RIC II 315; Strack 312 1/ζ ο (same dies as illustration); Calicó 1172 ( this coin illustrated ); cf. BMCRE 786; Biaggi 571 = Mazzini 8 ( this coin ); Jameson –. Toned, a few faint hairlines. Good VF. Very rare.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 49, 21 October 2008), lot 221; Giuseppe Mazzini Collection; Conte Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part III, Santamaria, 26 June 1950), lot 594.