Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1521. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (10.42 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. Struck after AD 128. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, laureate head right / MINER B AVGVS, Minerva standing left, holding patera and shield set on ground; spear to right. Unpublished. VF, flat strike in centers, slight roughness on obverse, graffiti in field on reverse. Overstruck on uncertain type. A novel reverse legend in Hadrian’s cistophoric series.