345, Lot: 480. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.40 g, 8h). Rome mint. Struck AD 117. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder, balteus over near shoulder / Fortuna seated left, holding cornucopia and rudder set on ground. RIC II 10 var. (without the balteus); RSC 749 var. (same). Good VF, lightly toned. Struck on a broad flan. Rare.

From the LJH Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 733641 (December 2002).

This rare portrait type shows Hadrian wearing a balteus, a belt used to suspend a sword. This rare variety was missed by both the cataloguers of RIC and RSC.