180, Lot: 229. Estimate $200. Sold for $605. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 23.25 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 132-134. Laureate and cuirassed bust right / Galley sailing left, consisting of five rowers and hortator seated beneath acrostolium; mast and sail on prow. RIC II 706; BMCRE 1403 var. (bust G, reverse of 1398). Near VF, dark greenish-brown patina, a few rough spots, nice galley.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.