347, Lot: 511. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian, with Sabina. AD 117-138. Æ As (25mm, 11.45 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 128-132. Laureate head of Hadrian right / Draped bust of Sabina left, wearing taenia, hair falling in plait down neck. RIC II 980. In NGC encapsulation graded F, Strike 4/5, Surface 2/5. Some smoothing. Rare.

Ex Spink 208 (22 June 2011), lot 421 = Spink 207 (23 March 2011), lot 848 (there incorrectly attributed to RIC II 978); Baldwin’s 47 (25 September 2006), lot 191 (same).