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Sestertius with bust of Hadrian

Roman
Imperial Period
A.D. 121–122
Mint: Rome

Medium/Technique Bronze
Dimensions Diameter: 34.5 mm. Weight: 24.06 gm. Die Axis: 6
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III in the Name of Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule
Accession Number1982.601
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

DescriptionObverse: Bust of Hadrian, laureate, draped, cuirassed, right.
IMPCAESARTRAIAN HADRIANVSAVG
Reverse: Ceres, standing left, holds long torch in left hand, corn ears in right.
PMTRP COSIII in field: S C

ProvenanceBy 1895, Edward Herbert Bunbury, 9th Baronet (b. 1811 – d. 1895); June 14, 1895, Edward Bunbury posthumous sale, Sotheby’s, London, lot 654 [see note ]; by date unknown: C. E. Mackerell Collection; by 1906: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Wellington Street, Strand, London (auction of the Mackerell Collection, May 16-18, 1906, lot 139: from the Bunbury Collection); by date unknown: Henry Platt Hall Collection; by 1950: with Glendining & Co., Ltd., 7 Blenheim Street, New Bond Street, London, W. 1 (Glendining auction of the Hall Collection, November 16-17, 20-21, 1950, lot 1389, partial); by date unknown in the 1950s: Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection; November 17, 1982: gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III to MFA in the name of Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule

Note: Many thanks to Dr John Voukelatos for the lot number identification.