HADRIAN SILVER CISTOPHORUS – AEZANI ISSUE SHOWING COMPLETE AUGUSTAN UNDERTYPE WITH PAX – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL AND PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 14720)
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ROMAN EMPIRE. HADRIAN, AD 117-138
Silver cistophorus, 10.41 g, 28 mm. Minted in Aezani.
Obv. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS PP, head of Hadrian right, within dotted border.
Rev. COS III, Jupiter standing left, holding eagle.
Metcalf type 49 (lists 7 specimens); RIC 497.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 3/5, Surface 3/5, “overstruck” , a neat type showing the complete undertype, an Ephesus cistophorus of Augustus with Pax standing (see attached image of undertype coin for reference).