Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.27 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 118. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P COS II, SΛLVS ΛVG in exergue, Salus, draped, seated left, holding patera in right hand, feeding serpent coiled around and rising from altar to left, resting left arm on chair. RIC II.3 137 (same dies as illustration); Strack 40γ1; Calicó 1368; BMCRE p. 250, note 84; Biaggi 654 var. (bust type) . Shallow scratch on reverse. Good VF.
Ex Roma XXIII (24 March 2022), lot 947.
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