Hadrianus AE Sestertius, Pietas reverse
Hadrianus (117-138 AD). AE Sestertius (32-33 mm, 23.97 g), Rome, c. 120/121.
Obv. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG PM TR P COS III, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right.
Rev. PIETAS AVGVSTI / S- C, Pietas, veiled, wearing long dress, standing right , dropping incense on a round, lighted altar at foot.
BMC 1202; RIC II.3 473.
Good portrait. Brownishgreen patina, slightly smoothed and tooled. Almost extremely fine.
Ex Auktion H.H. Kricheldorf XIII (1963), lot 299.