359, Lot: 194. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.30 g, 12h). Struck AD 137. Bareheaded bust right, slight drapery / Homonoia standing facing, head left, holding a patera over a lighted and garlanded altar to left, and cradling a cornucopia. Köln 1271; Dattari (Savio) 7989; K&G 34.2; Emmett 1350. VF, dark gray-brown surfaces.

From the Hermanubis Collection.

An interesting dating convention for the time, this series of tetradrachms was issued carrying Aelius’ titles (and subsequent dates) as tribune and consul, the latter for the second time. Other series from Alexandria generally involved the dating of the coins with respect to the emperor’s regnal year rather than the conventions employed here.