455, Lot: 294. Estimate $400. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (26mm, 10.67 g, 7h). Ephesus mint. Struck after AD 128. Bareheaded and draped bust right / Cult statue of Diana (Artemis) Ephesia within tetrastyle temple façade. RIC II 475b; Metcalf, Cistophori Type 9; RSC 537; RPC III 1333. Lightly toned. VF. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Augustus (Sutherland Group IVb).

From the J.B. Collection, purchased from CNG Inventory 761603 (October 2010).