313, Lot: 259. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.45 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head right / FELICITATI above, AVGVSTI in exergue, galley rowed left by four oarsmen: at the bow a mast raking forward with flag and sails attached, at the stern is a hortator with arm outstretched and an arched cabin under a curved aplustre. RIC II 240 var. (bust type); RSC 712b. VF, lightly toned.

From the Simon Shipp Collection.