Hadrian AE Sestertius, Rome, 134-138 AD.

HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate and draped bust right.
ADVENTVI AVG ARABIAE S-C, Hadrian, standing right, raising 
right hand, facing Arabia, standing left, holding patera 
and bundle of canes; altar and sacrificial victim between 
them. 

RIC II, 878; Cohen 20.

Struck as part of a series celebrating Hadrian's travels
through the empire.

Contributed by Anne Padgett, London, October 2009