CNG 109, Lot: 457. Estimate $300. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 13.23 g, 11h). Struck AD 137. Bare head right / ΔHM • ЄΞO V C • VΠAT • B •, Homonoia standing facing, head left, holding a phiale with her right hand over a lighted and garlanded altar to left, and cradling a cornucopia with her left arm. Köln 1271; Dattari (Savio) 2074; K&G 34.2; RPC III 6140; Emmett 1350. VF, toned.

From the New Orleans Collection, purchased from Nilus Coins (April 1996).

In an unusual dating system for the time, this series of tetradrachms was issued carrying Aelius’ titles (and subsequent dates) as tribune and consul, the latter for the second time. Other series from Alexandria generally involved the dating of the coins with respect to the emperor’s regnal year rather than the conventions employed here.