113, Lot: 129. Estimate $75. Sold for $133. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. 117-138 AD. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.82 gm). Dated RY 17 (132/3 AD). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Nilus reclining left, holding reed and cornucopiae; crocodile below; L IZ (date) above. Köln 1063; cf. Dattari 1434; Milne 1351; Emmett 876. VF, a little porous.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection (purchased privately from B. A. Seaby's, London, 22 August 1973)