Triton XVII, Lot: 695. Estimate $750. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 24.24 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Hadrian, AD 137. L AELIVS CAESAR, bareheaded and draped bust right / TR POT COS II, S C across field, Spes advancing left, holding flower in right hand, raising hem of skirt with left. RIC II 1055 (Hadrian); Strack 895; Banti 36 (cites only one example); BMCRE 1917 (Hadrian). Good VF, brown patina, some red, gray, and green, lightly smoothed.