Numismatik Lanz München 
	> Auction 150
	Auction date: 13 December 2010
Lot number: 299
Price realized: 850 EUR  (approx. 1,124 USD as of the auction date) 

     Hadrian, 117-138 AD

     Silver Denarius, 3.5 grams

     Obverse: HADRIANVS AVG COS II PP, Laureate bust right.

     Reverse: RESTITVTOR HISPANIAE, Hadrian standing left raising
     kneeling figure of Hispania.

     Roman Imperial Coinage Vol. II, 327

M.K. Thornton, Hadrian and his Reign, ANRW 2, 2, 1975, 449: 
«The second attribute on the Hadrianic coin of Spain is a 
rabbit. The Latin word for ‹rabbit› is cuniculus which 
according to Lewis and Short has the additional meaning of 
‹a mine›. So, as Toynbee suggests, «the rabbit who burrows 
in his burrow may be, in fact, an allegory of the miner who 
burrows in his mine, thus symbolizing the world-famous 
miners of Spain and the mineral wealth she contributed to 
the resources of Rome and of the Empire