CNG 85, Lot: 903. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 25.11 g, 12h). Travel series. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. Laureate and draped bust right / AFRICA, Africa, wearing elephant skin headdress, reclining left on rock, holding scorpion and cornucopia; basket of grain ears at feet. RIC II 840; Banti 91. VF, dark olive patina.

Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 67, 22 September 2004), lot 1484.