420, Lot: 464. Estimate $500. Sold for $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 28.82 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 118. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / LIBERALITAS AVG/ S C in two lines in exergue, Hadrian seated left on sella castrensis set on daïs, extending his right hand, attending to the distribution made by an officer, who is seated, to a citizen mounting steps up to it; Liberalitas standing left, holding tessera. RIC II 552; Banti 488. Fine, green patina. Rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Review XX.2, no. 330; Friedrich Collection of Roman Imperial Sestertii (Numismatica Ars Classica, 2 April 1995), lot 1289; .