Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 890. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $370. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (26.06 g, 6h). Struck AD 117. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / Fortuna seated left, holding rudder and cornucopia; FORT RED/S C in two lines in exergue. RIC II -; Banti 407. VF, brown patina with hints of green, areas of minor roughness. Rare.

Banti cites only one example of this rare, first-year issue.