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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1499. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006. 
Sold For $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (11.00 g, 7h). Smyrna mint. Struck after AD 128. Bare head right / Jupiter seated left, holding small Victory and sceptre; at feet, eagle standing left, head right. RIC II 499; Metcalf, Cistophori, type 30, 118 var. (O4/R- [unlisted rev. die]); RSC 272. VF, obverse struck off center, small edge split on obverse. Overstruck on an uncertain cistophorus of Augustus with grain ear reverse (cf. Sutherland groups IIIg, IVg, Vb, and VIb).