298, Lot: 243. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (27mm, 10.56 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Bareheaded bust right, slight drapery / RESTITVTORI AFRICAE, Hadrian, togate, standing left, holding volumen and extending hand to raise up kneeling Africa, wearing elephant skin headdress and holding grain ears; grain stalks between figures. RIC II 942 var. (bust type). VF, green and brown surfaces, fields smoothed. Rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Harvey J. Hoffer Collection (Harmer Rooke, 12 December 1986), lot 934.