★ Rare Head Left Africa Denarius ★

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.44 g, 6h). “Travel series” issue. Rome mint. Group 10, circa AD 130-133. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bareheaded bust left, slight drapery / AFRICA, Africa, draped, wearing elephant-skin headdress, reclining left, leaning on a rock, holding scorpion in right hand and cornucopia in left; to left, basket of grain ears. RIC II.3 1497 (same dies as first illustration); RIC II 299 var. (bust type); Strack 297; RSC 137a; BMCRE 821 note. Lightly toned, shallow scratch on reverse. EF. Rare head left.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex estate of Dr. Robert B. Beckett, Jr. (Classical Numismatic Group 105, 10 May 2017), lot 883 (hammer $2400); Triton VI (13 January 2003), lot 889.