Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 993. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.94 g, 6h). 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, type 32, 143 (O21/R29); RSC 326. VF. Overstruck on an uncertain undertype. ($500)