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. |
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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 III
g, IV
g, V
b, and VI
b).
