Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1604. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.89 gm, 7h). Aphrodisias mint. Struck after 128 AD. Bare head right / Cult statue of Venus (Aphrodite) Aphrodisias standing right; star and crescent on either side of calathus; lion-headed censer behind; figure seated left on low cippus before. RIC III 512; Metcalf, Cistophori 37, 181 (O18/R-; unlisted rev. die); RSC 327a. Good VF. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Augustus, Sutherland Group VI. ($1000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.