280, Lot: 179. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 25.79 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 119-121. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Hadrian seated left on curule chair set on platform, extending hand to child held in a woman’s arms; at woman’s side, child standing right, grasping her tunic. RIC II 568; Banti 515. Near VF, green patina.

From the Nera Collection.