Hadrian Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 134-138. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head right / SALVS AVG, Salus standing left, feeding snake out of patera in left hand, snake coiled around altar and holding spear; S-C across fields. RIC 786. 27.67g, 32mm, 6h.
About Good Very Fine.
From a private British collection;
Ex Collection of Ralph van Deman Magoffin (1874 – 1942), a notable American Classical scholar and archaeologist.