Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1511. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (10.82 g, 6h). Uncertain mint A. Struck after AD 128. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, Bare-headed, draped bust right / COS III, Pax standing left, holding branch and scepter. RIC II -; Metcalf, Cistophori, type 76, 313 var. (O11/R- [unlisted rev. die]); RSC 364a. VF, small edge split. Overstruck on an uncertain cistophorus of Mark Antony and Octavia (cf. RSC 2-3). Very rare issue, only one example cited by Metcalf.