Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1489. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (10.57 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Struck after AD 128. IMP CAES TRA HADRIANO AVG P P, laureate head right / COS III, Fortuna seated left, holding cornucopiae and rudder set on globe. Unpublished. VF. Well centered and struck.

Although the reverse type was employed at other mints, this particular obverse legend is only known on coinage from Nicomedia.