441, Lot: 445. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 30.00 g, 12h). “Travel series” issue. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. Laureate and draped bust right / NILVS above, S C in exergue, Nilus reclining right, leaning on rock, holding reed and cornucopia on which two children are climbing; to right, hippopotamus standing left among reeds; crocodile below. RIC II 863; Banti 561. VF, green and brown surfaces, areas filled and heavily smoothed, evidence of tooling. Struck on a heavy, medallic flan.