Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 1004. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.87 g, 1h). Eumeneia mint. Struck after 128 AD. Bare-headed and draped bust right / Apollo standing left, holding raven and labrys. RIC II 498; cf. Metcalf, Cistophori, type 51, 232 (O1/R-; unlisted rev. die); BMCRE 1065, note; RSC -. Good VF, reverse double struck. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Mark Antony and Octavia (cf. RSC 2). Extremely rare. ($750)