★ Attractive Aureus ★

Hadrian, AD 129-130. Rome. Gold Aureus (20 mm ,7.23 g.). HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head of Hadrian to right, trace of drapery behind neck. Rev. COS III P P, Hadrian standing left, raising hand and holding spear, two military standards to left, one to right. RIC 204 var; RIC II-3 1060; Calico 1240. Good very fine with a lustrous fields. Rarer reverse type with a coin with a classical idealised hellenistic portrait of Hadrian.