Beginning of the Sothic Cycle
219, Lot: 386. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. BI Tetradrachm (22mm, 11.44 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 138/9). Bare head right / Phoenix standing right; AIωN above, L - B (date) across fields. Köln 1290-1; cf. Dattari (Savio) 2430; K&G 35.2. Good Fine, porous. Rare.
From the Jörg Müller Collection.
AD 139 marked the renewal of the Great Sothic Cycle, a cycle of 1461 years beginning when the star Sothis (Sirius) rises on the same point on the horizon as the sun.