186, Lot: 181. Estimate $300. Sold for $227. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 25.18 g). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 120-122. Laureate head right / Pietas standing right, holding small vase of incense, sacrificing over lighted altar. RIC II 587a var. (bust type); BMCRE 1198 note; Banti 573. VF, glossy dark green patina, fields smoothed. Rare with this bust type, with only one specimen cited by Banti.