340, Lot: 308. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 24.81 g, 12h). Dated RY 17 (AD 153/4). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / Nilus reclining left, holding reed and cornuopiae from which emerges small Genius; small Genius inscribes Nilometer before, crocodile below. Köln 1706; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G 35.603. VF, green patina. Rare type.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXII (7 December 1994), lot 498.