313, Lot: 254. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 25.70 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 132-135. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate and draped bust left / FELICITATI AV G above, COS III P P in exergue, S C across field, galley rowed left: Triton on prow, blowing bucina, at the stern is a hortator and an arched cabin under a curved aplustre, flanked by vexillum and signum. RIC II 706; cf. Banti 354/356 (for obv./rev. type). VF, brown patina, light smoothing.

From the Simon Shipp Collection.