Attractive Sarapis and Isis Type

CNG 109, Lot: 470. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. BI Tetradrachm (24.9mm, 12.94 g, 11h). Dated RY 23 (AD 159/160). Laureate and draped bust right / Draped busts vis-à-vis of Sarapis and Isis; Sarapis wearing taenia and ornate kalathos and Isis wearing headdress of two plumes on a solar disk with a horn to either side; L below, K above, and Γ to right (L KΓ). Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 2377; K&G 35.817; Emmett 1434.23 (R3). VF, toned. Well centered. Very rare, with only five specimens appearing in CoinArchives, incuding the Staffieri coin, which this is comparable to for eye appeal.

From the New Orleans Collection, purchased from Nilus Coins (March 1998). Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (18 October 1990), lot 2409.