Gemini III, January 9th, 2007



                  Lot # 375 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$2000 / Unsold: 
                  Available at opening bid of US$1500 + 15% Buyers Fee 
                  Hadrian. Silver cistophoric tetradrachm 



             



            Hadrian. (117-138 AD). Silver cistophoric tetradrachm (10.17 gm). 
            Phrygia, Aezani. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare-headed, draped and 
            cuirassed bust right / COS III, Zeus, naked to waist, standing left, 
            holding eagle and scepter. Metcalf Type 49 (7 specimens). BMCRE 1066 
            note. Cohen 275 var. (30 Fr.). From the same obverse die as the 
            Vienna specimen, Metcalf pl. 15, 224. Overstruck on a cistophorus of 
            Mark Antony and Octavia, RPC 2201 or 2202: the cista and the coil of 
            a snake below and to the right of it survive in left reverse field. 
            Extremely fine. 

            This tetradrachm is of a rare type and from a seldom encountered 
            mint. Metcalf records only thirteen specimens (types 49-50), of 
            which only four have the same portrait features of the present 
            example. 




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