Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 992. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.21 g, 6h). Smyrna mint. Struck after 128 AD. Bare head right / Eagle standing left, head right, with wings displayed, on thunderbolt. RIC II 516; cf. Metcalf, Cistophori, type 31, 128-131 (O4/R-; unlisted rev. die); BMCRE 1079; RSC 427a. VF. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Mark Antony and Octavia (cf. RSC 2). ($500)