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Hadrian, 11 August 117 - 10 July 138 A.D.
Mauretania (also called Mauritania) was a part of North Africa on the Mediterranean coast, in what is today Morocco and Algeria. Mauretania was an independent tribal Berber kingdom from about the 3rd century B.C. It became a client of the Roman Empire in 33 B.C., then a full province after the death of Ptolemy of Mauretania in A.D. 40. Mauretania fell to the Vandal conquest in the 430s, but was reconquered by the Eastern Roman Empire in 533. There was a time of weak Byzantine rule where the territory was practically independent. The province was finally lost to the Umayyad Muslim conquest of the Maghreb around 698 A.D.RB72507. Orichalcum sestertius, BMCRE III 1760 (same reverse die); RIC II 854 (S); Hunter II 624; Cohen II 954, cf. SRCV II 3610 (Mauretania beside horse vice in front), aF, green patina, attractive for the grade, Rome mint, weight 24.759g, maximum diameter 32.0mm, die axis 180o, 131 - 138 A.D.; obverse HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate and draped bust right, seen from behind; reverse MAVRE-T-ANIA, Mauretania (on right) standing half right, looking left, leading horse right by bridle in right hand, wearing short tunic, two javelins over shoulder in left hand, S C (senatus consulto) in exergue; ex Morton & Eden auction 59 (13 - 14 Nov 2012), part of lot 957; ex Kenneth Edwin Day Collection; scarce; SOLD
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