313, Lot: 257. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.48 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head right / FELICITATI above, AVGVSTI in exergue, galley rowed left by five oarsmen: at the bow a mast raking forward with flag and sails attached, at the stern is a hortator and an arched cabin under a curved aplustre. RIC II 240; RSC 712. VF, lightly toned.

From the Simon Shipp Collection.