Rare Nike Reverse Type

346, Lot: 309. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.18 g, 12h). Dated RY 6 (AD 121/122). Laureate head right; crescent moon before / [NI]KH KAI C API, Nike advancing right, inscribing shield; to right, captive seated right, raising hand; L ς (date) to right. Köln 829; Dattari (Savio) 1413 var. (obv. legend); K&G 32.204; Emmett 874.6 (R4). Near VF, some roughness. Rare.

From a Hungarian Collection formed primarily in the 1930’s.