420, Lot: 466. Estimate $2500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 27.75 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 124-128. HΛDRIΛNVS AVGVSTVS, laureate bust right, slight drapery / COS III, S C in exergue, Roma, helmeted, in military dress, seated left on cuirass, left foot on helmet, holding Victory on extended right hand and cornucopia in left; round shield set on ground to right. RIC II 636; Strack 611α; Banti 183; BMCRE 1297. Near EF, glossy brown patina, some speckles of hard green. Well struck on a full flan. Appealing large format portrait.

Ex Gadoury (14 November 2015), lot 51.