Stunning Portrait of Hadrian

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 928. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (23.80 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head right / S C across field, Diana standing left, holding arrow in right hand, bow in left. RIC II 777; Strack 702; Banti 710; BMCRE 1545. EF, lovely chestnut brown patina, a hint of smoothing in fields on reverse. An exceptional portrait of restrained elegance, one of the finest coin portraits of Hadrian.