Gemini III, January 9th, 2007 Lot # 333 - Realized: US$2400 

Augustus. (27 BC-14 AD). Silver cistophoric tetradrachm 
(11.95 gm). Ephesus, 24-20 BC. 

IMP – CAE – SAR, bare head right / AVGV – STVS, 
garlanded altar, decorated with two hinds below the garland, two 
pateras above it, two palmettes rising from the upper corners. RPC 
2215. BMCRE 694. CBN 922. RIC 482. Cohen 33 (25 Fr.). Sutherland 
445a (this coin, dies O176/R98, pl. 11 and 31). 

Ex Hess 211, Lucerne, 1932, Frederick A. Walters, lot 183. 

Cited and illustrated by Sutherland in his 
monograph on Augustan cistophori. 

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Lot 333 sold for $2400 [ $2760, 2133.48 EUR, 1407.6 GBP ] 


Re-used by permission of Harlan J Berk  and Freeman & Sear