Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1409. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AELIUS. Caesar, 136-138 AD. Æ Sestertius (22.45 gm, 6h). Struck 137 AD. Bare head right / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC II 1055 (Hadrian); BMCRE 1914; Cohen 56. VF/Fine, dark brown surfaces, hair tooled on obverse, areas of minor roughness. Scarce. ($300)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIX (30 March 1994), lot 627.