Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 968. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.48 gm). Hierapolis mint. Struck after 129 AD. HADRIANVS AVG P P, bare-headed and draped bust right, seen from behind / COS III, Apollo Citharoedus standing right, holding plectrum and lyre. RIC II 482; Metcalf, Cistophori 53 var. (O3/R2); Pinder 61; BMCRE 1054; RSC 285. Toned, near EF, light porosity. ($2000)

Ex The New York Sale III (7 December 2000), lot 215; Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 94, 22 November 1999); lot 481; Lanz 30 (26 November 1984), lot 536.