Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1458. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (21.23 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 124-128. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / LIBERTAS RESTI/TVTA in two lines in exergue, Hadrian seated left on curule chair set on platform, extending hand to child held in a woman’s arms; at her side stands a child, holding her tunic. RIC II 568; Banti 515. VF, apple-green patina, minor roughness. Rare.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Vecchi 4 (5 December 1996), lot 190.