Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1470. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.62 gm). Struck circa 134-138 AD. Laureate and draped bust right / ADVENTVI AVG MA-VRETANIAE, Hadrian standing right, raising hand and holding roll, before lighted and garlanded altar over which Mauretania, standing left, wearing elephant's skin headdress, holding vexillum, holds patera; sacrificial calf left at feet. RIC II 899; BMCRE 1667; Cohen 67. VF, green patina, light smoothing in fields. ($1000)