425, Lot: 434. Estimate $500. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32.3mm, 23.42 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 124-128. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Virtus standing left, foot on helmet, holding parazonium and reversed spear. RIC II 638; Banti 196. Good VF, attractive reddish-brown surfaces, a bit of active green at 7 o’clock on the reverse.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from William B. Porter, May 1991. Reportedly ex Sir Charles Oman Collection (Christie’s, 2 July 1968), lot 174 (part of).