Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1486. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY(?). Hadrian. Circa 16th-18th centuries. Æ Medal (38mm, 40.76 g, 12h). Laureate half-length bust right, wearing aegis / Victory driving biga right, holding reins and whip. Pond-Rothman, "Posthumous Hadrianic Medallions," ANSMN 23 (1978), pl. 18, 2; Gnecchi 15 (pl. 38, 9); Toynbee pl. XL, 2. VF, red-brown and black patina, light smoothing in fields. Overstruck on an original Roman medallion.

Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 69, 8 June 2005), lot 2211; Henry Hoffer Collection (Harmer, Rooke, 12 December 1986), lot 949; Giorgi Collection (Ratto, 26 January 1955).