CNG 91, Lot: 718. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (32mm, 21.89 g, 12h). Dated RY 15 (AD 111/2). Laureate head right / Trajan, holding eagle-tipped scepter and laurel branch, driving quadriga of elephants right; Nike above elephants; L IE (date) in exergue. Cf. Köln 583 (no Nike); Dattari (Savio) 778; K&G 27.392. Good VF, brown surfaces, areas of red.

From the Greenpoint Collection, acquired from Frank Kovacs. Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection.