Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1366. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (10.74 g, 6h). Unidentified Asian mint C. Restitution issue struck under Hadrian, after AD 128. Bare head right / Hadrian, togate, standing half-left, sacrificing out of patera over altar to left. RIC -; cf. Metcalf, Cistophori type 92, 345 (same obv. die [O16], different rev. type); RSC -; CNG 66, 1340 = Gorny & Mosch 115, 1356 (same rev. die). VF, light graffito in field on reverse, slight die shift on obverse. Overstruck on uncertain type. Extremely rare, the second known example with this reverse type.