Very Rare Depiction of Sarapis-Nilus

346, Lot: 317. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 13.82 g, 12h). Dated RY 9 (AD 124/125). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Sarapis-Nilus standing left, holding cornucopia and sacrificing with patera over lighted and garlanded altar to left; ET E NAT (date) around. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 7465; K&G – (cf. 32.325 for a similar type with Sarapis standing right before an altar); Milne 1095 = Emmett 897.9 (R5). VF, find patina, area of roughness on the obverse. Very rare.

From a Hungarian Collection formed primarily in the 1930’s.