298, Lot: 205. Estimate $150. Sold for $207. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (25mm, 10.32 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Laureate head right / Nemesis standing right, pulling at drapery and holding branch. RIC II 828. VF, brown and red patina, fields smoothed.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection. With a Bourgey ticket from 1949.

RIC (p. 327) suggests an interesting historical background for this coin type: “The subjection of the Jewish revolt in AD 135 leads to a ‘Pax’ type and several victories – the most interesting one the Nemesis-Pax-Victoria of Claudius and Vespasian, implying respect for justice in the hour of triumph.”