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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 966. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. 
Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.94 gm). Unidentified C mint. Struck after 128 AD. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare head right / COS III, cult statue of Artemis Ephesia standing facing, extending hands and flanked by stags and thymiateria. RIC II 489; Metcalf, Cistophori 88, 327 (O2/R2) = SNG von Aulock 6622 (this coin); Pinder 69; BMCRE 1061; RSC 319. Toned, good VF, minor scratches from old cleaning. Overstruck on a cistophorus, probably of Vespasian. ($2000)

Ex Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 54.