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CNG 99, Lot: 534. Estimate $500.
Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (35mm, 18.96 g, 12h). Dated RY 13 (AD 109/10). [AVT] TPAIAN CEB ΓEPM ∆AKIK, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Harpokrates of Canopus: as a youth, nude from the waist up with the lower body of a crocodile, holding cornucopia with his left arm, right hand raised to his mouth, wearing skhent and standing left on a garlanded daïs; to left, small altar; L I-Γ (date) in fields. Köln 529; Dattari (Savio) 895 & 7043-44; K&G 27.233; SNG France 1079-80 var. (bust with slight drapery); Emmett 500.13; Kellner p. 102, pl. 4, Abb. 4 (this coin). VF, brown surfaces with patches of green, moderate roughness. Rare.


Ex Dr. Hans Steger Collection (Münzhandlung Basel 6, 18 March 1936), lot 242.