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Message:: [QUOTE="Drusus, post: 477228, member: 6370"]If I had the money, maybe 50,000 maybe 100,000 MAX...lovely coin no doubt but not over a million lovely...the price was very high because it was a part of the Nelson Bunker Hunt collection and the POSSIBILITY (not known) of a famous designer and engraver...this is just speculation and should not be factored into the price IMO.  "The portrait of this coin has been attributed by Charles Seltman ("Greek Sculpture and Some Festival Coins", Hesperia 17 (1948), 17 ff) to an individual known as the Alphaeus Master, and it has been further postulated that this superb engraver may in fact be the sculptor Antoninianus of Aphrodisias. Whatever the identity of the creator is secondary to the work of art he has created [sic], which synthesizes the best medallic work of this period, and breathes life into Hadrian's metallic portrait." Before the auction its worth was estimated at 400,000 CHF It is also of the highest quality, and extraordinary high relief...possibly an engraving for a medal which was later used for a coin.[/QUOTE]