CNG 111, Lot: 695. Estimate $4000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 6.76 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, bare head right / VOT PVB, the Genius of the Senate, togate, standing right, holding out right hand and holding transverse scepter in left; facing him, the Genius of the Roman people, naked to waist, standing left, sacrificing with patera in right hand over lighted altar in center and holding cornucopia in left. RIC II 288; Strack 286δο; Calicó 1401 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 775 note; Biaggi –; Jameson –; Mazzini –. VF. Rare.