Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1291. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. Æ Diobol (8.85 gm, 1h). Dated RY 2 (138/1 AD). Bare head right / Harpocrates crouching left on lotus flower, wearing hem-hem crown, with finger to mouth and holding lotus sceptre; star above, date around. Cf. Köln 1305 (no flower, different orientation of date); Dattari -; Milne -; Emmett 1751. VF, red-brown patina. Very rare. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Wetterstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Auctions XIII, 4 December 1990), lot 86; Coin Galleries (23 August 1989), lot 419.