378, Lot: 494. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Fourrée Denarius (18mm, 3.15 g, 6h). Imitating Rome mint style. Struck after AD 134. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head right / P M TR P COS III, VIRT AVG across field, Virtus standing left, foot on round object, holding sheathed sword and spear. Unpublished prototype. VF, toned, plating exposed in numerous spots.

This interesting piece has an obverse imitating the standard issues of Hadrian circa AD 134-138, but the reverse has no exact prototype, though the configuration, with this outer legend and an inner legend across the field is typical of his denarii struck circa AD 122-124.