CNG 109, Lot: 659. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.27 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 118. IMP CAESAR TRAIA N HADRIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P COS II, ORIENS in exergue, radiate and draped bust of Sol right. RIC II 43b; Strack 37η; Calicó 1294 var. (stops in rev. legend); BMCRE 75 var. (break in obv. legend); Biaggi 626. Good VF, toned, a few surface and edge marks, traces of deposits.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio 174, 11 January 2013), lot 5009; Sternberg XXI (14 November 1988), lot 403.