342, Lot: 566. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 26.37 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Hadrian, AD 137. Bare head right / Salus seated left, feeding out of patera snake coiled around and rising from altar to left, resting arm on back of chair. RIC II 1063 (Hadrian); Banti 27. Good Fine, brown surfaces, some red and green, short edge split.

From the RAM Collection, purchased from Lucien Birkler, June 1990.