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Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1295. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005. 
Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria [Menelaites Nome]. Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. Æ Drachm (28.52 gm, 12h). Dated RY 8 (144/5 AD). Laureate head right / MENE-LAEITH, Harpocrates of Canopus (part human and part crocodile) standing left, finger to mouth, holding cornucopiae; altar to left, date in exergue. Köln 3436; Dattari 6318; Milne -; Emmett 1819. VF, olive green patina, some encrustation. An exceptional nomes drachm. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (16 August 1983), lot 342).