120, Lot: 171. Estimate $200. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AELIUS. Caesar, 136-138 AD. Æ As (26mm, 12.50 g). Struck 137 AD. Bare head right / Spes standing left, holding flower in right hand, raising hem of skirt with left. RIC II 1067 (Hadrian); BMCRE 1931 (Hadrian); Cohen 59. VF, brown surfaces with light roughness, bump or scuff on high points of the obverse.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.