298, Lot: 229. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 25.56 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Laureate and draped bust left / NILVS, Nilus reclining right, holding reed and cornucopia, resting elbow on sphinx left; child above knee; at feet, second child on back of hippopotamus; below, crocodile left. RIC II 867; Banti 562. Fine, brown patina. Rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.

Ex L. P. G. Messinger Collection (Glendining’s, 21 November 1951), lot 145 (part of)