437, Lot: 418. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.43 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 119-125. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / LIB PVB in exergue, Libertas seated left, holding branch and vindicta. RIC II 127; RSC 903. Good VF.

According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, “Libertas”, the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was “the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation.”