298, Lot: 202. Estimate $150. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 25.14 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Laureate head right / LIBERALITAS AVG VII, Hadrian seated left on sella castrensis set atop platform; before him, Liberalitas standing left, emptying cornucopia into fold of citizen’s toga. RIC II 766; Banti 507. Fine, dark green patina, a few scratches. Very rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection; V. J. E. Ryan Collection (Glendining’s, 2 April 1952), lot 2540 (part of).