389, Lot: 652. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.47 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 124-128. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC II 175; RSC 374a. EF, toned.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor, purchased from Dr. Paul Rynearson, July 1994.

According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, “Libertas”, the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was “the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation.”