Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1485. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (10.97 g, 7h). Nicomedia mint. Struck after AD 128. Bare head right / COM BIT, tetrastyle temple set on three-tiered podium, ROM S P AVG across frieze, pellet in pediment; within, draped male figure standing right, holding sceptre and Victory. RIC II 459a; Metcalf, Cistophori, type B5, 21 (O12/R20); RSC 241. VF, light cleaning marks in field on reverse. Well centered.