140, Lot: 158. Estimate $500. Sold for $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (27mm, 10.87 g). Ephesus mint. Struck after AD 128. Bare head right / Cult statue of Diana (Artemis) Ephesia standing front between two stags. RIC II 525a; Metcalf, Cistophori, type 17 (unlisted dies); BMCRE 1085 note; RSC 524. VF, light scratches on obverse. Overstruck on an uncertain cistophoric tetradrachm of Augustus.