346, Lot: 313. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.50 g, 12h). Dated RY 9 (AD 124/125). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Bust of Ammon right, with slight drapery; ET ENAT (date) around. Köln 872 var. (Ammon without slight drapery); Dattari (Savio) 1521 var. (same); K&G 32.281 var. (same); Emmett 905.9 (R4–listed as Zeus-Ammon by Emmett). VF, find patina with some light verdigris. Rare.
From a Hungarian Collection formed primarily in the 1930’s.