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Auction XXIII  24-25 Mar 2022
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Lot 526

Estimate: 3000 GBP
Price realized: 2800 GBP
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Hadrian AR Cistophorus of Nicomedia, Bithynia. After AD 128. IMP CAES TRA HADRIANO AVG P P, laureate head to right / Octastyle temple set on three-tiered podium, ROM S P AVG across frieze; COM-BIT across fields. RPC III 968.28 (this coin); RIC II 461b; RIC II.3 -; Metcalf, Cistophori, type B1; RSC 240b. 10.87g, 27mm, 6h.

Extremely Fine; attractive cabinet tone, a bold portrait engraved in handsome style.

This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk);
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XVII, 28 March 2019, lot 644;
Ex collection of an antiquarian, Bavaria c. 1960s-1990s.
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