399, Lot: 416. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ Drachm (33mm, 19.65 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 (AD 120/121). Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Harpokrates of Canopus: as a youth, nude from the waist up with the lower body of a crocodile, holding cornucopia with his left arm, right hand raised to his mouth, wearing skhent and standing left on ground line; L E (date) across field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –, but cf. 7682 (year 4); K&G –; RPC III –; Emmett 978.5 (unlisted regnal year). Fair, dark brown patina with patches of green. Very rare type for Hadrian, and unpublished for this regnal year.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.