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Menelaeites Nome

CNG 85, Lot: 717. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 25.01 g, 12h). Nome issue. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/5). Laureate head right / MЄNЄ ΛΛЄITH[C] (sic), Harpocrates, with the lower part of his body in form of crocodile and wearing the skhent crown, standing left, raising finger to lips and holding cornucopia; altar to left, RY in exergue. Köln 3435-8; Dattari (Savio) 11042; K&G N31.8. VF, brown patina. Rare.


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