CNG 91, Lot: 745. Estimate $300. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (33mm, 22.01 g, 12h). Dated RY 19 (AD 134/5). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Confronted busts of the Dioskouroi; altar between them; crescent flanked by two stars above; L ЄNNЄAKΔ (date) below. Köln -; Dattari (Savio) -; K&G -; Emmett 948. Near VF, green-brown and brown patina, pit on obverse, minor roughness. Very rare.
From the Greenpoint Collection, acquired from Frank Kovacs.