298, Lot: 244. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (26mm, 9.87 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Laureate and draped bust right / 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. VF, green patina, minor roughness. Rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Hausman Collection.