HADRIAN SILVER CISTOPHORUS – PERGAMON ISSUE WITH GOD OF MEDICINE ASCLEPIUS OVERSTRUCK ON A CISTOPHORUS OF AUGUSTUS – XF NGC GRADED ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 14978)

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14978. ROMAN EMPIRE. HADRIAN, AD 117–138.
Silver Cistophorus, 10.91 g, 27 mm. Issue of Pergamon.
Obv. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS P P, draped bust of Hadrian right. Rev. COS III, Asclepius standing, head turned left, holding snake entwined staff.
RPC III, 1324 (RPC Online lists 9 specimens).
NGC graded XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “graffiti,” “overstruck on Augustus,” the undertype being an Ephesus cistophorus depicting a garlanded altar, RPC I, 2215.