Triton XIV, Lot: 712. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.45 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 119-125. [IMP CAE]SAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate head right / P M TR P COS III, Hadrian, in military dress, standing facing, head left, holding rudder set on globe in right hand and inverted spear in left. RIC II 110; Strack 84; RSC 1162c; BMCRE 237 note. Superb EF, deep cabinet toning.

From the C.K. Collection. Ex Stack’s (8 December 1993), lot 2175.