Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 970. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.85 gm). Laodicea mint. Struck after 128 AD. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare head right / COS III, Zeus Laodiceus standing left, holding eagle and sceptre. RIC II 497; Metcalf, Cistophori 56, 270 (O5/R14); Pinder 48; BMCRE 1066; RSC 275. Good VF. Overstruck on a cistophorus, probably of Augustus. ($1000)