Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1018. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DIVA SABINA. Died 136 AD. Æ Sestertius (28.87 gm, 6h). Struck under Hadrian, 136-138 AD. DIVA AVGVSTA SABINA, veiled and draped bust right, wearing wreath of grain ears / CONSECRATIO, S C in exergue, eagle standing facing on sceptre, head left. RIC II 1052 (Hadrian); Strack 876; Banti 13; BMCRE 1906 (Hadrian); Cohen 33. Good VF, green patina with traces of red-brown, light smoothing in fields, light pitting on reverse. Rare. ($2000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex The New York Sale I (3 December 1998), lot 281 (expertly conserved since); V. J. E. Ryan Collection V (Glendining, 2 April 1952), lot 2593.