Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1466. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (11.12 g, 1h). Laodicea mint. Struck after 128 AD. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare head right / COS III, Zeus of Laodicea standing left, holding eagle in extended right hand and cradling sceptre in right arm. RIC II 497; Metcalf, Cistophori, type 56, 263 (O2/R7); BMCRE 1066; RSC 275. Good VF, traces of undertype on obverse. ($1000)