Very Rare

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1068. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (10.05 g, 7h). Uncertain Asia Minor mint. Struck after AD 128. Bare head right / Hadrian on horseback galloping right, brandishing javelin. RIC II 515; Metcalf, Cistophori, type 126 (unlisted dies); RSC 413. Good VF, toned, minor porosity, a few light scratches on reverse. Extremely rare. One of only a handful known.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 141 (10 October 2005), lot 205.