Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 1024. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (11.33 g, 5h). Uncertain mint in Asia Minor. Struck after 128 AD. Bare head right / COS III, Apollo seated left, holding laurel branch over tripod, and lyre. RIC II -; Metcalf, Cistophori -; BMCRE -; RSC -. Near EF, minor porosity. Overstruck on a cistophorus of Augustus, Sutherland Group VI (b). Apparently unpublished. ($1000)

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 1489.