CNG 88, Lot: 1325. Estimate $2500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 27.81 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 128-132. Laureate head right / Hilaritas standing left, holding long palm frond 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. Near EF, dark green-brown patina, minor scratch on reverse. Struck on a broad flan.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 51 (5 March 2009), lot 991; Hess-Divo 307 (8 June 2007), lot 1607; Münzen und Medaillen AG 81 (18 September 1995), lot 278.