Triton XV, Lot: 1525. Estimate $7500. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.36 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 128-132. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COS III, Hadrian, bareheaded, in military dress, on horseback, pacing right, raising right hand. RIC II 348; Strack 215; Calicó 1221a; BMCRE 503. EF, lightly toned, light scrape on edge.

From the Sierra Collection. Ex Jürgen K. Schmidt Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 1970; Giessener Münzhandlung 67 (2 May 1994), lot 500.