Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 886. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. Æ Sestertius (29.28 gm). Struck 132-134 AD. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / FELICITATI AVG COS III PP SC, galley progressing to left, crewed by five rowers. RIC II 719; Banti 346; Cohen 663. Good VF, dark brown patina, some smoothing of the fields. Rare. ($2000)

Ex V.J.E. Ryan collection (Glendining & Co., 2 April 1952), lot 2512 (part of).