EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (24.5mm, 19.91 g, 12h). Menelaite nome. Dated RY 13 (AD 109/10). Near VF.

Triton XXVIII – Session 5
Lot: 5537. Estimated: $ 500

The Beniak Collection of Alexandrian Coinage, Bronze

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (24.5mm, 19.91 g, 12h). Menelaite nome. Dated RY 13 (AD 109/10). Laureate bust right, wearing aegis on left shoulder / MENEΛA ЄITHC, Harpokrates of Canopus: as a youth, nude from the waist up with the lower body of a crocodile, standing left on garlanded base, wearing skhent, holding cornucopia with his left arm, right hand raised to his mouth; L I Γ (date) across field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 11031 = RPC III 6444.4 (this coin); K&G N31.3; W&G I.1b; Emmett 751.13 (R3). Green patina with patches of red, some roughness, edge flaw. Near VF. Rare.

From the Dr. Thomas E. Beniak Collection. Ex Giovanni Dattari Collection (Naville Numismatics 31, 14 May 2017), lot 274.


Closing Date and Time: 22 January 2025 at 12:58:40 ET.



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