Zodiac Type - “Mercury in Gemini”
Ex Wetterstrom & Curtis

CNG 103, Lot: 604. Estimate $750. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33.5mm, 20.87 g, 12h). Dated RY 8 (AD 144/5). Laureate head right / Mercury (Hermes) in Gemini: to left, Herakles standing facing, holding club set on ground to left, lion skin draped over arm; to right, Apollo standing facing, head left, holding lyre set on ground to right; above, draped bust of Hermes right, wearing lotus-bud crown; star of eight rays before; [L] H (date) across field. Köln 1899 (same obv. die); Dattari (Savio) 8824–7; K&G 35.269; Emmett 1576.8; J. Curtis, The Coinage of Roman Egypt: A Survey, p. 38, pl. XXVIII (rev. of this coin illustrated). VF, brown patina, some roughness. Extremely rare.

Ex Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection (Part II, Classical Numismatic Auctions XIII, 4 December 1990), lot 184; Berk BBS 58 (28 June 1989), lot 416; Col. James W. Curtis Collection.