Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 1001. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.48 g, 1h). Sardis mint. Struck after 128 AD. Bare head right; c/m: IMP (ligate) VES AV(AV ligate) G in incuse / Cult statue of Kore standing facing; grain ears and poppy at feet. For coin: RIC II 510; Metcalf, Cistophori, type 47 (unlisted dies); BMCRE 1075; RSC 279; for c/m: Howgego 840 and Pangerl 101. VF. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Mark Antony which bore the IMP VES AV countermark. ($500)