298, Lot: 233. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 26.68 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Bareheaded and draped bust right / ADVENTVI AVG MAVRETANIAE, Hadrian, togate, standing right, raising hand and holding volumen, facing Mauretania, wearing tunic, standing left, sacrficing from patera over altar and holding vexillum; sacrificial victim behind altar. RIC II 897; Banti 47. VF, brown patina, light smoothing. Rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Hausman Collection.