169, Lot: 249. Estimate $300. Sold for $441. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 30.75 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 137. Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / Spes standing left, holding flower and lifting hem of skirt. RIC II 1055 (Hadrian); Banti 36 (lists one specimen of this variety). VF, brown surfaces, a little porous.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.