139, Lot: 306. Estimate $500. Sold for $552. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 24.48 g). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 119-120. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / Emperor seated left on platform, greeting female holding small child with another at her feet. RIC II 568; Cohen 949. VF, river-worn patina, flan crack.

From the Tony Hardy Collection.

The reverse type of this sestertius commemorates either Hadrian's cancellation of public debts or the continuation of Trajan's Italian orphan-relief policies, and thus a "restoration of liberty." As empe