Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 1800. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $825. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AELIUS, Caesar. 136-138 AD. Æ Sestertius (22.78 gm). Struck 137 AD. Bare head right / Spes standing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC II 1055 (Hadrian); BMCRE 1914 (Hadrian); Cohen 56. VF, dark brown patina, some smoothing in fields. ($750)