Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1491. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.29 gm). Uncertain mint in Asia Minor. Struck after 129 AD. Laureate head right / Demeter standing left on car drawn by pair of winged serpents, holding uncertain object (grain ears or torch[?]) and sceptre. RIC II -; Metcalf, Cistophori -; Pinder -; BMCRE -; RSC -. VF, reverse double struck. Apparently unpublished. ($750)

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica L (18 May 2001), lot 1845.