Sun in Leo

433, Lot: 233. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 22.15 g, 12h). Zodiac series. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/5). Laureate head right / Sun in Leo: Lion leaping right; above, radiate and draped bust of Helios (Sun) and eight-rayed star; L H (date) below. Köln 1495-6; Dattari (Savio) 2968; K&G 35.278; Emmet 1530.8. VF, brown surfaces, earthen deposits around devices, flan cracks.

Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numsimatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 1162.