Gemini III, January 9th, 2007



                  Lot # 378 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$1750 / Unsold: 
                  Available at opening bid of US$1300 + 15% Buyers Fee 
                  Hadrian. Silver cistophoric tetradrachm 



             



            Hadrian. (117-138 AD). Silver cistophoric tetradrachm (10.94 gm). 
            Unattributed mint. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare-headed, draped bust 
            right / COS III, Athena standing left, holding patera and spear, the 
            shield at her feet obscured by the undertype. Metcalf Type 118 (15 
            specimens), new dies. BMCRE 1071. Cohen 294 (30 Fr.). RIC 503. 
            Overstruck on a cistophorus of Mark Antony and Octavia, RPC 2202. 
            Extremely fine. 

            Coils of the snakes from the undertype’s reverse are visible below 
            and behind Athena and in front of her face; the axis of the old 
            reverse was 8:00 relative to the new one. On the obverse, traces of 
            the undertype’s obverse legend [DESI]G ITER ET T[ER] survive below 
            Hadrian’s bust. This legend is so near the edge of the coin that 
            there cannot have been an ivy wreath outside it, guaranteeing that 
            the undertype was RPC 2202, not 2201. 




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