180, Lot: 231. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 22.90 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 134-138. Laureate and draped bust right / ADVENTVI AVG AFRICAE, Hadrian standing right, raising his right hand, facing Africa standing left, holding patera and grain ears; altar between; bull on ground behind altar. RIC II 872; BMCRE 1630; Cohen 10. Near VF, brown surfaces with some green deposits, smoothed.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.