Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1465. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (11.12 g, 7h). Pergamum mint. Struck after 128 AD. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare headed and draped bust right / COS III, Aesculapius standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff held in his right hand. RIC II 481b; Metcalf, Cistophori, type 3, 3-4 (O1/R- [unlisted rev. die]); BMCRE 1053; RSC 291. Near EF, slight die shift on reverse. Struck from fresh dies. ($1000)