322, Lot: 485. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.16 g, 12h). Dated RY 15 (AD 130/1). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Alexandria standing right, holding vexillum and presenting grain ears to Hadrian standing left, holding scepter; L IE (date) between. Köln 1026; Dattari (Savio) 1268; K&G 32.505. VF, red and brown surfaces.

Struck to commemorate the emperor’s visit to Alexandria in AD 130. It was during this visit that Hadrian’s favorite, the Bithynian youth Antinous, drowned in the Nile.