431, Lot: 406. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32.5mm, 24.32 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 132-135. Bareheaded and draped bust left / FELICITATI/AVG P P in two lines above, COS III below, galley left with eight oarsmen; at the bow, a mast raking forward with flag and sails attached; at the stern, a hortator under an arched cabin. RIC II 706j var. (rev. legend); Banti 377 var. (6 oarsmen); E. Biaggi, The Superb Patinas of the Sestertii of Imperial Rome, 251 (this coin illustrated). VF, dark brown patina with traces of green and red, some roughness and scratches.