169, Lot: 197. Estimate $150. Sold for $385. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (24mm, 11.18 g). Uncertain mint in Asia Minor (Pergamum?). Struck circa 25-20 BC. Countermarked for Vespasian at Ephesus, AD 74-79. Bare head of Augustus right; lituus before; c/m: IM VES AVG / Six grain ears bound together. Thirion, “Cistophores contremarqués sous Vespasian”, SM Nov. 1963, 11 (this coin); RIC I 490; Sutherland Group III; RPC I 2209; RSC 32a; c/m: Howgego 840. Fine, toned.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection. Ex Glendining 9 July 1963, lot 111.