425, Lot: 333. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (33.1mm, 27.68 g, 11h). Dated RY 13 (AD 128/129). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Nilus reclining left, holding reed and cornucopia from which emerges a Genius; Iς (for 16 cubits) above, crocodile below, L TPICKAI (date) below. Köln 1001; Dattari (Savio) 1808; K&G 32.470; RPC III 5730; Emmett 1014.13. VF, green and brown patina with touches of red, some smoothing.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, September 1985.