HADRIAN SILVER CISTOPHORUS – CLEAR OVERSTRIKE ON AN AUGUSTUS CISTOPHORUS WITH ALTAR TYPE – NEAR VF ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 20527)

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20527. ROMAN EMPIRE. HADRIAN, AD 117–138.
Silver Cistophorus, 10.40 g, 30 mm. Issue of Miletus, after AD 128.
Obv. HADRIANVS-AVGVSTVS P P, bare head of Hadrian right. Rev. COS III, Diana standing facing, holding patera and bow, stag standing left in left field.
RPC Online III, 1355 (six specimens listed); Metcalf, The Cistophori of Hadrian, series 26, nos. 108-110 (obverse die 5/unlisted reverse die).
Near VF, a seldom seen type, overstruck on a cistophorus of Augustus with altar reverse (RPC I, 2215), clear traces of which are visible on the reverse.