120, Lot: 158. Estimate $500. Sold for $466. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 30.25 g). Struck 134-138 AD. Bare head right / ADVENTVI AVG AFRICAE, Hadrian standing right, raising his right hand, facing Africa standing left, holding patera and grain; altar between, bull on ground behind altar. RIC II 872; BMCRE 1628 var. (draped); Cohen 10 var. VF, glossy brown patina with some red encrustation, light roughness and smoothing.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.