CNG 109, Lot: 478. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 12.63 g, 12h). Dated RY 16 of Antoninus Pius (AD 152/153). Draped bust right / Nilus reclining left, holding a reed with his left hand and a cornucopia from which emerges a Genius with his right hand; the Genius is crowning Nilus with a wreath; below, crocodile to right; L Iς (date) to upper left. Köln 1968; Dattari (Savio) 9100; K&G 38.79; Emmett 1955.16 (R4). VF, toned. Very rare.

From the New Orleans Collection, purchased from Nilus Coins (November 1997).