Very Rare Type
From the Curtis Collection

298, Lot: 256. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 10.53 g, 12h). Alexandria mint. Dated RY 8 (AD 123/4). Laureate head right; crescent before / Harpocrates standing facing, raising hand to mouth and holding cornucopia; L–H (date) across field. Köln –; Dattari 7492; K&G –; Emmet 850 (R5); Curtis 428 var. (date). Near VF, toned, porous. Very rare.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Gordon Dickie Collection (Empire 7, 2 May 1987), lot 159. Ex Colonel James W. Curtis Collection.