HADRIAN SILVER CISTOPHORUS – ISSUE OF LAODICEA WITH ZEUS LAODICEUS OVERSTRUCK ON A MARK ANTONY COIN – CHOICE FINE ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (inv. 21515)

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21515. ROMAN EMPIRE. HADRIAN, 117–138 AD.
Silver Cistophorus, 10.03 g, 32 mm. Issue of Laodicea, ca. AD 128–132.
Obv. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, bare head of Hadrian right. Rev. COS III, Zeus Laodiceus standing facing, looking left, holding eagle and scepter.
Metcalf, The Cistophori of Hadrian, Series 56, nos. 257–292; RPC III 1399.
NGC CHOICE FINE, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “overstruck,” traces of the undertype’s legend on the reverse (..IMP COS…), almost certainly from a cistophorus of Marc Antony and Octavia.