Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 969. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.27 gm). Laodicea mint. Struck after 128 AD. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare head right / COS III, Zeus Laodiceus standing left, holding eagle and sceptre. RIC II 497; Metcalf, Cistophori 56, 264 (O2/R8) = Mazzini 275 (this coin); Pinder 48; BMCRE 1066; RSC 275. Toned, good VF. Overstruck on a cistophorus, probably of Mark Antony ($1500)