Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 976. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.75 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Struck after 128 AD. Laureate head right / COM BIT, S P Q P (sic) across fields, octastyle temple set on three-tiered podium, ROM AVG across frieze, shield in pediment, dot between fourth and fifth columns. RIC II -; Metcalf, Cistophori, type B14, 33 (O24/R32); BMCRE 1100 var. (drapery on left shoulder); RSC 240d var. (same). Good VF. Exceptional. ($1000)