Exceptional Aegyptos As

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1095. Estimate $10000. Sold for $27500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (27mm, 11.20 g, 12h). Travel Series. Rome mint. Struck circa AD 134-138. HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate and draped bust right / AEGYPTOS, S C in exergue, Egypt reclining left, holding sistrum in right hand and resting left arm on basket; at feet, ibis standing right on low column. RIC II 839; Strack 707ζ; BMCRE 1703-4. Choice EF, brown and green patina. Featured in the podcast “Ägypten, 130 n. Chr.” on the MoneyMuseum website (click here for the English version, here for the German version).

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Kurt P. Wyprächtiger Collection; Leu 33 (3 May 1983), lot 57.