111, Lot: 186. Estimate $200. Sold for $405. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (29mm, 9.62 gm). Ephesus mint. Bare head right / DIANA EPHESIA COS III, cult statue of Diana Ephesia between two stags facing. RIC II 527; Metcalf, Cistophori 19, 84b (O62/R73; this coin). Fine, toned, overstruck on uncertain undertype. 

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (9 April 1986), lot 446; Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 1-3 May 1980), lot 563; Magnaguti Collection, pt. 3 (P. & P. Santamaria, 26 June 1950), lot 654; Leo Hamburger 76 (19 October 1925), lot 854.