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Extremely Rare Drachm Depicting Harpokrates

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 872. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009. 
Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (23.28 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 138/9). Bare-headed bust right, slight drapery / Harpokrates standing facing, leaning on column; cornucopia to right, date across field. Köln -; Dattari (Savio) 8456 (this coin); K&G -; Emmett 1526 (misdescribed). Good VF, even brown surfaces. Extremely rare.


Ex Bayerische Vereinsbank FPL 11 (April 1976), no. 150; Giovanni Dattari Collection.