311, Lot: 922. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EGYPT, Alexandria. Commodus. AD 177-192. BI Tetradrachm (22mm, 12.65 g, 12h). Dated RY 30 (AD 189/90). Laureate bust right / Pronoia standing facing, head left, raising hand and holding scepter; L-Λ (date) across field. Köln 2249; Dattari (Savio) 3879; K&G 41.126. VF, darkly toned.
From the Robert M. Harlick Collection. Ex VAuctions 252 (16 September 2010), lot 60.
Pronoia (“foresight”) was an Oceanid nymph and wife of the Titan Prometheus.