Ex Ryan Collection

338, Lot: 240. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 28.85 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 124-128. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Hadrian seated left on daïs, extending his right hand; before him, Liberalitas standing left, emptying cornucopia into the fold of the toga of a citizen. RIC II 648d; Banti 502. Good VF, dark brown patina with touches of green and red, light smoothing on the reverse, edge roughness.

Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 139; V.J.E. Ryan Collection (Glendining’s, 2 April 1952), lot 2539.