437, Lot: 422. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.31 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 124-128. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC II 175; RSC 374a. VF, pvc residue.

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.”