389, Lot: 651. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.03 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 124-128. HADRIANVS ΛVGVSTVS, laureate bust right, slight drapery / C OS III, Hadrian, with cloak floating behind him, on horseback prancing right, holding spear in rest. RIC II 187; Calicó 1224a (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 437; Biaggi 593. VF, a few marks, a spot of die rust on obverse.