Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 1008. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1430. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (11.09 g, 5h). Mint A. Struck after 128 AD. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder / COS III P P, Hadrian standing facing, head left, holding grain ears and reverted sceptre. Cf. RIC II 473; cf. Metcalf, Cistophori, type 61, 298 (obv. die [O 1], different rev. type); cf. BMCRE p. 382, §; cf. RSC 1158. VF, light scratches in obverse field. Unpublished reverse type. ($500)