Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1505. Estimate $750. Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006. Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (10.16 g, 6h). Aezani mint. Struck after AD 128. Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Jupiter standing left, holding eagle and scepter. RIC II -; Metcalf,
Cistophori, type 49, 224 var. (O5/R- [unlisted rev. die]); RSC 275a. Good VF, slight roughness on obverse, minor die shift on reverse. Overstruck on an uncertain cistophorus of Mark Antony and Octavia (cf. RSC 2-3).