CNG 105, Lot: 890. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.36 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. Laureate head right, slight drapery / RESTITVTORI AFRICAE, Hadrian standing left, holding volumen, about to raise Africa who is kneeling right, holding grain ears and wearing elephant skin headdress; between them, three upright stalks of grain. RIC II 322; RSC 1223a. Good VF.

From the estate of Dr. Robert B. Beckett, Jr. Ex Berk BBS 164 (29 November 2005), lot 509.