ANCIENT ROMAN IMPERIAL COINS - HADRIAN - MAURETANIA SESTERTIUS 136 AD Rome mint. Obv: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P legend with laureate bust right. Rev: MAVRETANIA legend with Mauretania wearing short tunic standing right holding reins of horse advancing left and holding a single javelin in left hand; SC in exergue. 25.73 grams. [No Reserve] Condition Near very fine. Very rare; apparently unpublished variant. Provenance With collector tickets. Literature RIC 856 variant (javelins); BMC 1763 variant (ditto); Sear 3610 variant (ditto). Footnotes RIC lists five variants for this sestertius reverse type, all with Mauretania carrying two javelins in his left hand (854-856, 858-859); similarly, BMCRE lists eight examples (1758-1764); no reverse seems to be recorded having only a single javelin.
ANCIENT ROMAN IMPERIAL COINS - HADRIAN - MAURETANIA SESTERTIUS 136 AD Rome mint. Obv: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P legend with laureate bust right. Rev: MAVRETANIA legend with Mauretania wearing short tunic standing right holding reins of horse advancing left and holding a single javelin in left hand; SC in exergue. 25.73 grams. [No Reserve] Condition Near very fine. Very rare; apparently unpublished variant. Provenance With collector tickets. Literature RIC 856 variant (javelins); BMC 1763 variant (ditto); Sear 3610 variant (ditto). Footnotes RIC lists five variants for this sestertius reverse type, all with Mauretania carrying two javelins in his left hand (854-856, 858-859); similarly, BMCRE lists eight examples (1758-1764); no reverse seems to be recorded having only a single javelin.
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