298, Lot: 240. Estimate $300. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 22.68 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Laureate and draped bust left / RESTITVTORI ACHAIAE , Hadrian, togate, standing left, holding volumen and extending hand to raise up kneeling Achaea; vase containing palm between figures. RIC II 938; Banti 627. Near VF, light tan surfaces, flan crack and minor roughness. Rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection.

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