Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1463. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.47 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Struck after 128 AD. IMP CAES TRA HADRIANO AVG P P, bare head right / COM BIT, octastyle temple set on three-tiered podium, ROM S P AVG across frieze, three pellets in pediment. RIC II 461a; Metcalf, Cistophori, type B4, 17 (O14/R16); BMCRE 1099 note; RSC 240a. Good VF, die shift on obverse. Struck from fresh dies. ($1500)