Triton XIX, Lot: 543. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.11 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. HΛDRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bareheaded and draped bust right / AFRICA, Africa, draped, wearing elephant-skin headdress, reclining left, placing right hand on neck of lion standing left, and resting left arm on basket; grain ears behind. RIC II 298c; Strack 296ζo; Calicó 1198 (same dies); BMCRE 808; Biaggi 578 var. (bust left). Good VF, toned, a couple hairlines on obverse. Very rare with obverse head right.