Hadrian AD 117-138. Struck circa AD 132-135. The reverse type refers to Hadrian's return to Rome from his second great tour of the empire. Rome
Sestertius Æ
32 mm., 22,86 g.
[HA]DRIANVS AVGVSTV[S], bare-headed, draped bust right / FELICITATI AVG/ S - C, galley rowed left by five oarsmen: at the bow a mast raking forward with flag and sails attached, at the stern is a hortator and an arched cabin under a curved aplustre; in exergue COS III PP.
very fine
RIC II 706 var. (bust type); Banti 340.