CNG 88, Lot: 1332. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (26mm, 11.15 g, 12h). Laodicea mint. Struck circa AD 128-132. Bare head right / Zeus Laodiceus standing left, holding eagle and scepter. RIC II 497; Metcalf, Cistophori, type 56, 274 (O7/R17); RSC 275. EF, lustrous. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Augustus, whose profile is discernible in obverse field.

From the Sierra Collection.