Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 1007. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.82 g, 7h). Hierapolis mint. Struck after 128 AD. Bare-headed and draped bust right / Great God right on horseback, holding labrys over shoulder. RIC II -; cf. Metcalf, Cistophori, type 53, 239 (obv. die [O 6], different rev. type); BMCRE -; RSC -. VF. Overstruck on an uncertain cistophorus. Extremely rare and unpublished. ($1000)

Struck from the same obverse die as the previous lot.