Gemini III, January 9th, 2007
Lot # 373 US$1750 / Unsold: 

            Hadrian. (117-138 AD). Silver cistophoric tetradrachm (10.50 gm). 
            Caria, Mylasa. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare head right / COS III, 
            Zeus Karios standing front, holding spear and shield, both of which 
            rest on ground; in front of the shield an eagle on a curving 
            pedestal. Metcalf Type 42. BMCRE 1063. Cohen 274 (citing BM, 100 
            Fr.) RIC 495 (R2). Very rare: only two specimens known to Metcalf. 
            From the same obverse die as Metcalf’s specimen 192, but from a new 
            reverse die. Apparently overstruck on a PAX cistophorus of Augustus, 
            RPC 2203. Extremely fine.