Hadrian’s Travels

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3310. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (24.10 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 132-135. Laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery / Quinquereme with nine oarsmen left, hortator at stern. RIC II 706 var. (bust type); Banti 340. VF, two-tone green patina, traces of porosity and smoothing, a few scratches. Impressive portrait.

From the John A. Seeger Collection.