Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 614. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (11.01 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Struck after AD 128. IMP CAES TRA HADRIANO AVG P P, laureate head right / COM BIT across field, octastyle temple set on three-tiered podium, ROM S P AVG across frieze. RIC II 461b; Metcalf, Cistophori, type B1, 9 (O7/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Pinder 100; RSC 240b; BMCRE 1099 note. Good VF, lightly toned, faint scratches on neck and in field below chin, traces of deposits on reverse. Well centered on both sides.