298, Lot: 214. Estimate $75. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (25mm, 9.06 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Bare head right / ALEXANDRIA, Alexandria reclining left, holding grain ears and vine branch, resting elbow on basket of grain; grain stalks at feet. RIC II 844 var. (bust type). Near VF, brown patina, light roughness.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection; V. J. E. Ryan Collection (Glendining’s, 2 April 1952), lot 2775 (part of).