Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 987. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HADRIAN. 117-138 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (10.73 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. Struck after 128 AD. Bare head right / Aesculapius standing left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff. RIC II 481; cf. Metcalf, Cistophori, type 20, 89-93 (O67/R-; unlisted rev. die); BMCRE 1053, note; RSC 290. VF, light scratches in fields. ($500)

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.