Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1138. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.80 gm, 11h). Struck circa 132-135 AD. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, bare-headed and draped bust right / FELICITATI AVG, COS III P P in exergue, S C across field, galley sailing right, eye on bow, consisting of six rowers and hortator seated beneath acrostolium flanked by military standard and vexillum; statue of Triton/Neptune on prow, brandishing spear or trident. RIC II 704 var. (bust type); Strack 838zo; Banti 382 (same reverse die); BMCRE 1386 var. (two rows of six rowers); Cohen 694. EF, brown patina with orichalcum highlights. Exceptional reverse variety. ($3000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.