172, Lot: 221. Estimate $200. Sold for $293. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Sabina, wife of Hadrian. Augusta, AD 128-136/7. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 24.64 g). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 128-134. Diademed and draped bust right / Pietas standing facing, head left, her hand held above the heads of two small children, a boy on the left, girl on right. RIC II 1030 (Hadrian); BMCRE 1876; Cohen 52. VF, dark brown patina, some peripheral roughness.
From The John A. Seeger Collection.