Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3309. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (25.49 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 128-132. Laureate head right / Hilaritas standing front, head left, holding long palm branch and cornucopia; on left, a small boy standing right, hands on palm frond; on right, a small girl standing left, raising hands to tip of drapery. RIC II 970; Banti 441. VF, green-brown patina, hairline flan crack, a few minor flaws.

From the John A. Seeger Collection.