385, Lot: 529. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.71 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 119-125. Laureate head right / Libertas seated left, holding branch and vindicta (liberation rod). RIC II 127; RSC 904. VF, light toning.

According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, “Libertas”, the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was “the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation.”