307, Lot: 248. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Gaza. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ (23mm, 10.34 g, 12h). Dated Epidemia 2 (AD 130/1). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Tyche standing left, holding scepter and cornucopia; heiffer at side, Phoenician mem to right. Rosenberger 59; Yashin 303; SNG ANS 914. Good Fine, green surfaces, earthen deposits.

Hadrian visited Gaza more than once, and it was upon such a visit in AD 128 that an additional reckoning date, that of the επιδημία (imperial visit), was added. During one of his trips the great temple of Zeus-Marnas may have been founded, as it first appears on the coins of Hadrian.