CNG 100, Lot: 1780. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 13.22 g, 12h). Dated RY 4 (AD 119/20). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Hippopotomus standing right; L Δ (date) above. Köln 789; Dattari (Savio) 1574 & 1579; K&G 32.122; Emmett 863.4 (R3). VF, dark gray to black patina, light porosity, area of roughness near reverse edge. Rare.

From the Syracuse Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 954608 (July 2013); Roma (21 May 2013), lot 783.