Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1603. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.95 gm, 7h). Smyrna mint. Struck after late 128 AD. Bare head right / Two Nemeses standing facing, vis-à-vis, each holding out fold of drapery; the left also holding a bridle, the right a rule. RIC II 507; Metcalf, Cistophori 32, - (O23/R29; unlisted die combination); RSC 326. VF, traces of minor encrustation. Overstruck on an uncertain undertype. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Ponterio 95 (18 August 1998), lot 590.