CNG 105, Lot: 891. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.28 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. Laureate head right / RESTITVTO-RI AFRICAE, Hadrian standing right, about to raise Africa who is kneeling left, holding grain ears and wearing elephant skin headdress; between them, three upright stalks of grain. RIC II 323; RSC 1229. Good VF. Rare variant with emperor on left and Africa on right.

From the estate of Dr. Robert B. Beckett, Jr. Ex Gemini II (11 January 2006), lot 382.