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361, Lot: 943. Estimate $300.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 27.53 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. Laureate and draped bust right / ADVENTVI AVG AFRICA, Hadrian, togate, standing right, raising hand and holding volumen, facing Africa, wearing elephant skin headdress and tunic, standing left, sacrficing from patera over altar and holding grain ears; sacrificial victim to right of altar. RIC II 872; Banti 6. VF, tan-brown patina, deep flan crack. Rare.


From the Olav E. Klingenberg Collection. Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 298, 13 March 2013), lot 231.