120, Lot: 160. Estimate $150. Sold for $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.51 g). Struck 134-138 AD. Laureate head right / RESTITVTORI AFRICAE, Hadrian standing right, holding roll, about to raise Africa who is kneeling left, who holds grain-ears and wears elephant-skin headdress; between them, three upright grain-ears. RIC II 323; BMCRE 874; RSC 1229. VF, attractively toned.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.