Sale: Triton X, Lot: 627. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. AR Cistophorus (10.76 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Struck after 128 AD. IMP CAES TRA HADRIANO AVG P P, laureate head right / COM BIT, octastyle temple set on three-tiered podium, ROM S P AVG across frieze; within, male figure standing facing, head right, holding scepter in right hand, Victory in left. RIC II 459b; Metcalf, Cistophori, type B6, 24 var. (unlisted dies); Pinder 96; RSC 242; BMCRE 1097. Near EF, lightly toned.