Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1486. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $315. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (9.76 gm). "Unattributed mint" in Asia Minor. Struck after 129 AD. Laureate head right / Artemis Phosphorus advancing right, holding torch in each hand. RIC II 491 var. (bare-headed and draped bust right); Metcalf, Cistophori 114 var. (unlisted dies); Pinder -; BMCRE pg. 386, ‡ var. (bare-headed and draped bust right); RSC 320 var. (same). Near VF. Overstruck on an uncertain cistophorus of Augustus. ($500)