120, Lot: 170. Estimate $200. Sold for $245. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AELIUS. Caesar, 136-138 AD. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 23.18 g). Struck 137 AD. Bare head right / Spes standing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC II 1055 (Hadrian); BMCRE 1914 (Hadrian); Cohen 56. VF, dark brown patina, some smoothing in fields.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.