Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 531. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 20.83 g, 12h). Labor of Hercules type. Dated RY 6 (AD 142/3). AYT K [T AIL] ADR ANTwNINOC EVC CEB, laureate head right / Hercules standing right with upper body left, holding the struggling giant Antaeus about the waist with both hands and raising him off the ground; to right, lion skin resting on club set on ground; L V (date) across field. Köln -; Voegtli types 12s and 17b = BMC 1054 = Emmett 1541.6 (same rev. die); Dattari (Savio) -; Milne - . Good VF, blue-black patina, minute traces of brown on reverse, small pit on obverse. Extremely rare.

From the James E. Cain Collection.