287, Lot: 352. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (34mm, 22.75 g, 12h). Dated RY 21 (AD 136/7). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Two Agathodaimon serpents, wearing
sekhemti (
pschent) crowns, erect on either side of column, surmounted by kalathos filled with three grain ears and two poppies; L KA (date) across lower field. Köln 1228; Dattari (Savio) 1928; K&G 27.738 var. (date placement); Emmett 907. Fine/Very Fine, brown and green patina, rough obverse.
From the Greenpoint Collection. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 113), lot 152; Purchased from B.A. Seaby, London, 22 August 1973.