367, Lot: 490. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 28.00 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. Bareheaded and draped bust left / Nilus reclining left, leaning on sphinx, holding cornucopia and reed; to left, a hippopotamus; crocodile below; one child stands to right, one child rides on the cornucopia, one child rides hippopotamus. RIC II 870; Banti 556. VF, brown and green surfaces, some encrustation, areas of roughness. Bold portrait.