Watch List notes:

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 25.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 117. Laureate and cuirassed bust right, with slight drapery; balteus over near shoulder / Trajan standing right, presenting globe to Hadrian standing left. RIC II 534a; Banti 234; BMCRE 1101. Near VF, brown patina with touches of green, minor obverse roughness, minor smoothing.


Ex Berk BBS 175 (7 July 2011), lot 257; Coin Galleries (18 April 2001), lot 235.

This rare portrait type shows Hadrian wearing a balteus, a belt used to suspend a sword.