High Relief Portrait

200, Lot: 316. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.26 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / Spes advancing left, holding flower in right hand, raising hem of skirt with left. RIC II 322; Calicó 1382. VF.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 57 (28 March 2001), lot 1260.