Superb Marcus Aurelius Drachm
Ex Beretta & Dattari Collections

Triton XXI, Lot: 175. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Drachm (34mm, 27.07 g, 12h). Dated RY 3 (AD 162/163). Μ AVΡΗΛΙΟC ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟC CЄ, laureate bust right, slight drapery / ЄYΘH NIA, Euthenia standing facing, head left, holding two grain ears with her right hand and cornucopia with her left; L Γ (date) across lower field. Köln 2009-10 var. (obv. bust type and legend); Dattari (Savio) 3451 (this coin – obverse illustrated on pl. III and reverse illustrated on pl. XIII); K&G 37.158; Emmett 2129.3; Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 176 (this coin). Choice EF, attractive dark brown patina with touches of green. Exceptional, and a two-year type for Marcus Aurelius (regnal years 2 and 3).

From the Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection, purchased from Dr. Piero Beretta, Milan, October 1976. Ex Dr. Piero Beretta Collection (Milan); Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 3451.

A superb coin that Dattari used to illustrate both the obverse and reverse in his original 1901 catalogue.