Gemini III, January 9th, 2007 Lot # 375 US$2000 / Unsold

Hadrian. (117-138 AD). Silver cistophoric tetradrachm (10.17 gm). 
Phrygia, Aezani. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare-headed, draped and 
cuirassed bust right / COS III, Zeus, naked to waist, standing left, 
holding eagle and scepter. Metcalf Type 49 (7 specimens). BMCRE 1066 
note. Cohen 275 var. (30 Fr.). From the same obverse die as the 
Vienna specimen, Metcalf pl. 15, 224. Overstruck on a cistophorus of 
Mark Antony and Octavia, RPC 2201 or 2202: the cista and the coil of 
a snake below and to the right of it survive in left reverse field. 
Extremely fine. 

This tetradrachm is of a rare type and from a seldom 
encountered mint. 

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Lot 375 was unsold.

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