Triton XXI, Lot: 92. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.62 g, 12h). Dated RY 22 (AD 137/138). AVT KAIC TPA A∆PIANOC CЄB, laureate bust right, slight drapery / Nilus seated left, holding reed and cornucopia; below, crocodile to right; L KB (date) in upper left field. Köln 1241-2; Dattari (Savio) 1440 (this coin); K&G 32.767 (cross reference to DS 1438 in error); RPC III 6250/25 (this coin, but DS 1440); Emmett 879.22; Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 62 (this coin–described as DS 1438 in error). EF, toned, just a bit of porosity. Rare regnal year for this type. Great portrait.

From the Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection, purchased from Dr. Piero Beretta, Milan, May 1972. Ex Dr. Piero Beretta Collection (Milan); Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 1440.