HADRIAN SILVER CISTOPHORUS – UNCERTAIN MINT ATHENA ISSUE OVERSTRUCK ON ANTONY CISTOPHORUS – VF NGC GRADED ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 20872)

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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.
NGC graded VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “overstruck,” substantial traces of the undertype visible.

The undertype here 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, and a great part of the undertype legend appearing on the reverse: [M AN]TONINVS IMP COS DESIG…., as well as traces of the two portraits under the standing Athena.