409, Lot: 592. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.14 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 120-122. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Ceres standing left, holding grain ears and long torch. RIC II 610; Banti 591. VF, warm red-brown patina, minor roughness. Handsome portrait. With an early 20th century Dutch collector’s ticket.

Ex UBS 45 (15 September 1998), lot 857; Jacques Schulman FPL LXII (1915), no. 719.