Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1517. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (10.68 g, 6h). Uncertain mint D(?). Struck after AD 128. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare-headed bust right, drapery on left shoulder / COS III, Minerva, helmeted, standing left, holding owl and shield set on ground; spear to her left. Unpublished. VF. Overstruck on an uncertain cistophorus of Augustus. Possibly unique.

The obverse type and style suggest an attribution to Metcalf’s uncertain mint D.