Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1478. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $415. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (11.12 gm). Smyrna mint. Struck after 129 AD. Bare head right / Zeus seated left, holding Diana Ephesia and sceptre; eagle at feet before. RIC II 501; Metcalf, Cistophori 29, 116 (O2/R2); Pinder -; BMCRE pg. 388, †; RSC 273b. Lightly toned VF. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Augustus, Sutherland Group V (a). ($500)

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica L (18 May 2001), lot 1842.