Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 974. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.43 g, 7h). Nicomedia mint. Struck after 128 AD. Laureate head right / COM BIT, temple set on three-tiered podium, ROM S P AVG across frieze, clipeus in pediment; within, Hadrian standing left, holding patera and reverted spear. Cf. RIC II 459c; cf. Metcalf, Cistophori, type B8 (for rev. type); cf. BMCRE 1097 and note; cf. RSC 243. VF, trace of porosity in reverse fields. Unique. ($500)