298, Lot: 235. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (26mm, 11.11 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Laureate and draped bust right / ADVENTVI AVG MAVR-ETANIAE, 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 898 var. (bust type). Near VF, brown patina.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.

RIC only records a left facing head (see previous lot) for this variety.