298, Lot: 226. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 27.00 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Bareheaded and draped bust right / MAVRETANIA, Mauretania, wearing elephant skin headdress, standing left, holding bridle of horse and two javelins. RIC II 859 var. (bust type, no elephant skin headdress); Banti 533 var. (same); Strack 722. VF, brown surfaces, minor deposits. Very rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.