Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1605. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $395. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.92 gm, 7h). Mylasa mint. Struck after 128 AD. Bare bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / Cult statue of Jupiter (Zeus) Labraundeus. RIC III 496; Metcalf, Cistophori 39, 86a (O4/R5 -- this coin); RSC 276a. VF, toned, minor porosity. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Augustus. ($500)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Walter Niggeler Collection (Bank Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, 3-4 December 1965), lot 1259; Franz Trau Collection (Gilhofer & Ranschburg-A. Hess, 22 May 1935), lot 1101.