Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 683. Estimate $250.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $151. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MYSIA, Pergamon.Circa 76-67 BC. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (12.27 gm). Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / Bow-case with serpents; snake-entwined staff to the right, MOS and monogram within wreath above. Kleiner, "Hoard Evidence and the Late Cistophori of Pergamum," in ANSMN >23 (1978), pg. 81, 45; Pinder 124. EF, well struck, overstruck on an earlier cistophoric tetradrachm. ($250)