K&G Plate Coin

CNG 109, Lot: 461. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Hemidrachm (28.8mm, 12.86 g, 12h). Dated RY 4 (AD 140/141). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Isis Pharia sailing right, holding a sistrum with her right hand and a billowing sail with both of her hands; L ∆ (date) to lower left. Köln 1353 (same obverse die); Dattari (Savio) 2661; K&G 35.101 (this coin illustrated); Emmett 1724.4. Near VF, dark brown patina with traces of green. Hemidrachms, in general, are scarce from Alexandria.

From the New Orleans Collection. Ex Rob Golan FPL 17 (May 1998), no. 18; Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Auctions XIII, 4 December 1990), lot 92.