Watch List notes:

Hadrian (117-138). AE Sestertius, 119-121 AD. D/ IMP CAESAR TRAIANVS HADRIANVS AVG PM TR P COS III. Laureate and draped bust right. R/ RELIQVA VETERA HS NOVIES MILL ABOLITA. Lictor standing left, holding fasces in left hand and firing a heap of papers on left. RIC 590 b; C. 1206 (Fr. 30). AE. g. 23.38 mm. 34.00 RR. Very rare and historically interesting. Smoothed. VF.

The reverse type commemorates Hadrian's remission of unpaid back taxes to the amount of nine million sestertii. His policy was dramatically enacted by the burning of the bonds in the Forum of Trajan. (Freeman & Sear 13, 2006, 481 note.).