Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 893. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (30.80 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 124-128. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / Roma seated left on cuirass, foot on helmet, holding Victory and cornucopia; shield behind. RIC II 636; Banti 183. VF, mottled brown and green patina, minor smoothing. An impressive portrait.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica N (26 June 2003), lot 1965.