Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1017. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.45 gm, 6h). Struck circa 122-125 AD. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HA-DRIANVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder; thunderbolt on shoulder strap and gorgoneion on breastplate / P M TR P COS III, S C across field, Ceres, veiled, standing left, holding grain ears in outstretched right hand and long torch in left hand. RIC II -; Strack 573h var. (no gorgoneion); Banti 590 var. (same); BMCRE 1245 var. (same); Cohen -. EF, mottled gray-green patina over black-green with traces of light brown. Exceptional example of an apparently unpublished variety. ($1500)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Stack's (4 December 2001), lot 195.