Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1584. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRAJAN. 98-117 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.74 gm, 7h). Uncertain Asia Minor mint. Struck early 98 AD. IMP NERVA CAES TRAIAN AVG GERM TR P P P COS II, 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 -; cf. BMCRE 79 (Nerva); Hunter -; cf. RSC 14a (same); Mazzini -. Good VF, toned. Apparently unique and unpublished. See lots 1568-9 for Nerva's use of this reverse. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

See lots 1568-9 for Nerva's use of this reverse.