355, Lot: 440. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Tranquillina. Augusta, AD 241-244. Potin Tetradrachm (23mm, 11.68 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 of Gordian III (AD 241/2). Draped bust right, wearing stephane / Nilus reclining left on rocks, holding reed and cornucopia; L Є (date) to left. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 4833; K&G 73.9; Emmett 3455.5 (R5). Near EF, dark gray-brown surfaces. Rare.

From the Hermanubis Collection.

Emmett describes this type as “Nilus reclining left on hippopotamus,” but there is not a hippo present on this example.