313, Lot: 244. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.08 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 119-125. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HA DRIANVS AVG, laureate bust right, slight drapery / P M TR P CO S III, galley left, no oarsmen and no hortator: at the bow a mast raking forward with flag and sails attached, at the stern is an arched cabin under a curved aplustre. RIC II 113b; RSC 1174a. VF, toned, flan flaws on obverse.

From the Simon Shipp Collection.