Triton XXI, Lot: 74. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (34mm, 23.82 g, 12h). Dated RY 17 (AD 132/133). AVT KAIC TPAIAN A∆PIANOC CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Sarapis standing right, holding a scepter with his left hand and presenting a globe in his extended right hand, facing Hadrian, who is standing facing, head left, resting his right hand on a stele inscribed AΔP/IA/NON in three lines; all within distyle temple, pediment decorated with disk; L IZ (date) in exergue. Köln 1084; Dattari (Savio) 1946 (this coin); K&G 32.554; RPC III 5845/2 (this coin); Emmett 1042.17; Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 69 (this coin). Good VF, lovely dark brown patina with a trace of green.

From the Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection, purchased from Renzo Canavesi, Sagno, 1996. Ex Renzo Canavesi Collection (Sagno); Dr. Piero Beretta Collection (Milan); Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 1946.

A rare variety with Sarapis holding a globe instead of saluting the emperor. The authors of RPC cite two coins: this coin, and the one in the Köln collection. There is also an example in the Ashmolean Museum collection (Milne 1380).