Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1287. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. 117-138 AD. Æ Drachm (21.21 gm, 12h). Dated RY 18 (133/4 AD). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Egyptian sphinx with uraeus tail, wearing composite crown and crocodile pectoral advancing right on serpent; griffin seated right on sphinx's back, holding wheel; date in upper left field. Köln 1131; cf. Dattari 2003; Milne -; Emmett 1057. VF, green and brown patina. Rare. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Superior (27-29 May 2001), lot 595; Wetterstrom Collection (includes ticket); Harvey J. Hoffer Collection (Harmer Rooke 12-13 Decembert 1986), lot 1000.