Triton XVIII, Lot: 1097. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Sabina. Augusta, AD 128-136/7. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 27.77 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Hadrian, circa AD 128-134. SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG P P, draped bust right, wearing double stephane and hair coiled and piled on top of head / S C in exergue, Ceres, veiled and draped, seated left on modius, holding up stalks of grain in right hand and lighted, long torch in left. RIC II 1019 (Hadrian); Strack 858; Banti 28; BMCRE 1879-81 (Hadrian). Good VF, green patina, reverse surfaces are mostly brown, areas of roughness, some earthen deposits.

From the RAM Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 79 (1 March 1994), lot 527.