Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 733. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antinoüs, favorite of Hadrian. Died 130 AD. Æ Hemidrachm (11.09 gm, 12h). Dated RY 19 of Hadrian (134/5 AD). ANTINOO[V] HPWOC, draped bust right, wearing hem-hem crown / Antinoüs, as Hermes-Thoth, on horseback right, draped in chlamys, which blows behind him, and holding caduceus in his right arm; L IQ (date) in fields. Blum pg. 54, 10; Köln -; Dattari 2084; Milne 1481; Emmett 1347/19. VF, brown patina, flan crack. ($500)

From the David A. Dowdy Collection. Ex John Work Garrett Collection I (Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16-18 May 1984), lot 788.