★ Published in Bandi ★

Hadrian, 117-138. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 32 mm, 27.82 g, 6 h), Rome, 134-138. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P Laureate bust of Hadrian to right with slight drapery over far shoulder. Rev. SALVS AVG / S C Salus standing right, feeding, from a patera, snake arising from altar to right. Banti 698 ( this coin ). BMC 1555. Cohen 1337. RIC 785. Attractive brown old cabinet patina. Smoothed fields , otherwise, about extremely fine.
From the collection of W. M. Stoecklin, Winterthur, Switzerland, acquired from Hirsch in Munich in 1967, ex Glendining & Co., 23 December 1966.