Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1568. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NERVA. 96-98 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.88 gm, 7h). Uncertain Asia Minor mint. Struck January-September 97 AD. Laureate head right / COM ASI across field, distyle temple set on four-tiered base; ROMA ET AVG across entablature; within, cult statue of Augustus standing facing, holding spear, being crowned with wreath by female figure holding cornucopiae. RIC II 122 var. (ROM ET AVG); BMCRE 79; RSC 14a. Good VF, minor trace of encrustation on reverse. ($750)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.