Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 962. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. Æ Sestertius (25.33 gm). Struck 134-138 AD. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate and draped bust right, seen from behind / COH PRAETORI / S C in exergue, Hadrian standing right on low daïs with praefectus praetorio behind and centurion on ground before and holding sword and virga, addressing a vexillifer, holding a vexillum and oblong shield, standing between two signiferi, each holding a military standard and clipeus. Banti 135 (this coin); RIC II -; Strack -; BMCRE -; Cohen -. EF, untouched green patina. Unique. [See color enlargement on plate 15] ($10,000)

Ex Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica, with Spink Taisei, 16 November 1994), lot 406; Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 59; Münzen und Medaillen XXVIII (19-20 June 1964), lot 335.