Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1139. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Hadrian. 117-138 AD. AR Tetradrachm (8.99 gm, 1h). Countermarked under Caracalla, 215-217 AD. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / TARCEWN MHTROPOLEWC, lion bringing down bull to left; c/m: laureate head of Caracalla right, A-M-K around bottom of bust; all within incuse oval. For coin: Prieur 764; SNG Levante -; SNG France 1400; for c/m: Howgego 843; Prieur 780. VF, toned. Rare. ($300)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

The acronym AMK, in the counterstamp, stands forPrwth Megisth Kallisth (First, Greatest, Most Beautiful), epithets granted to the city upon Caracalla's arrival there in 215 AD.