401, Lot: 331. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 24.75 g, 11h). Dated RY 13 (AD 149/150). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / 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 1639; Dattari (Savio) 2753; K&G 35.477; Emmett 1621.13. Near VF, even 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.