HADRIAN SILVER CISTOPHORUS – ISSUE OF AN UNCERTAIN MINT WITH ATHENA OVERSTRUCK ON A MARK ANTONY COIN -VF ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (inv. 20872)

$750.00

20872. ROMAN EMPIRE. HADRIAN, 117–138 AD.
Silver Cistophorus, 10.83 g, 28 mm. Issue of Uncertain Mint in Asia, AD 124–128.
Obv. [H]ADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, draped bust of Hadrian right. Rev. COS III, Athena standing left, holding patera and shield, spear by her side.
Metcalf, The Cistophori of Hadrian, Series 118, nos. 393–407, the majority being overstruck on Augustan cistophori; no. 399 is overstruck on an Antony cistophorus; RPC III 1474.
NGC VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “overstruck.” The undertype here, of which substantial traces remain, is a cistophorus of Antony, showing Antony and Octavia on the obverse and a cista with Bacchus on the reverse (RPC I 2202; Sydenham 1198). Part of the snakes around the cista are visible on the obverse in front of Hadrian’s chin, while a great part of the undertype legend appearing on the reverse: [M AN]TONINVS IMP COS DESIG…., together with traces of the two portraits under the standing Athena.