401, Lot: 330. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 20.09 g, 12h). Dated RY 13 (AD 149/150). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / Nilus reclining left, holding reed and cornucopia from which emerges a Genius who crowns Nilus with a wreath; L TPICKAI (date) to left, Iς above, crocodile to right below. Köln 1641; Dattari (Savio) 8635-6; K&G 35.475; Emmett 1621.13. VF, even dark brown surfaces.

Ex Robert L. Grover Collection, Art Institute of Chicago (Gemini XIII, 6 April 2017), lot 463 (part of).

The Greek numerals Iς above the Genius indicate 16 cubits, the optimal flood level height of the Nile during inundation season.