Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1340. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUGUSTUS. 27 BC-14 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (14.31 gm). Unidentified mint C. Restitution issue struck under Hadrian, after 129 AD. Bare head of Augustus right / Hadrian standing left, holding patera over tripod, and grain ears. RIC I -; cf. Metcalf, Cistophori 92, 353 (O24/-; unlisted reverse die); Pinder -; BMCRE -; RSC -. VF, minor porosity. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Augustus, Sutherland Group III (g). Extremely rare. ($500)

Ex Gorny & Mosch 115 (5 March 2002), lot 1356.