321, Lot: 322. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Alexandria ad Issum. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ (22mm, 8.11 g, 12h). Dated CY 181 (AD 114/5). Laureate bust of Trajan right, slight drapery / Hero (Alexander the Great?) standing left, holding patera and scepter; date in legend. SNG France –; SNG Levante 1844 = SNG von Aulock 5466 = Levante, Alexandreia 66 (this coin). VF, brown and green patina.

From the Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection. Ex Edoardo Levante Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 66, 19 May 2004), lot 1106; Hans von Aulock Collection.

Levante notes that “the rev. type, in a typical iconography to the founders, strongly points to the founder of the city, Alexander the Great and not to Zeus, as previously stated in Levante, Alexandreia.”