Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1057. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (11.19 g, 7h). Nicomedia mint. Struck after AD 128. Laureate head right / Octastyle temple set on three-tiered base, ROM S P AVG across frieze, three pellets in pediment. RIC II 461b var. (obv. legend); Metcalf, Cistophori, type B1, 10 var. (O8/R- [unlisted rev. die]); RSC 240b var. (obv. legend). VF, slight roughness on obverse. Very rare variety with TRAI in obverse legend.