Extremely Rare Heliopolitan Issue

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 533. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 28.76 g, 12h). Nome issue. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/5). A[YT K T AI] L ADR ANTwNINOC CEB EVC, laureate head right / HLIO PO LEIT, Helius standing left, holding statuette of mnewer standing right in outstretched right hand and cradling scepter in left arm; L H (date) across lower field. Köln -; BMC 13 = Emmett 1820; Dattari 6248; Milne - . Near VF, black-green patina with traces of red on reverse, small pit in left field of reverse. Extremely rare and the first to appear at auction in recent memory.