298, Lot: 158. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 24.35 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 119-122. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Hadrian seated left on sella castrensis set atop platform, extending hand towards a child being held by a woman below; a second, older child standing at her side, tugging at her tunic. RIC II 568; Banti 517. VF, green patina, pitted surfaces. Scarce type.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Harvey J. Hoffer Collection (Harmer Rooke, 12 December 1986), lot 808.