From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 423 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$500 / Price 
                  Realized: US$600 
                  Hadrian. Silver tridrachm 



             



            Hadrian. (117-138 AD). Silver tridrachm (8.95 gm). Cilicia, Aegeae, 
            Year ZOP=177=130/131 AD. AYTOKP KAICA TRAIANOC AÄPIANOC CEB ÐÐ, bust 
            laureate right with bare chest, fold of cloak on left shoulder / 
            ETOYÓ ZOP AIÃEAIÙN, diademed, draped bust of Asclepius right, 
            serpent-staff before bust, small goat below. Apparently only the 
            fourth recorded specimen, the other three all coming from the same 
            obverse die and the same plus one other reverse die: Gorny & Mosch 
            152, 10 October 2006, lots 1816–1817 and Lanz 135, 21 May 2007, lot 
            694. Not in Prieur. Beginning of obverse legend double struck. Good 
            very fine. 

            Prieur 719 lists only a single silver tetradrachm of Hadrian struck 
            at Aegeae in this year 130/131 AD, but since the publication of his 
            book in 2000 a small issue of silver tridrachms of Hadrian dated to 
            the same year has also emerged, with the reverse types bust of 
            Asclepius as on our coin, plus bust of Hygieia and bust of Sabina, 
            specimens of all of which can be found in CoinArchives. The obverse 
            die of our coin was also used with both of the other reverse types. 




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  ... Lot 423 sold for high bid of $600 [ $690, or approx 476.1 EUR, 351.9 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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