416, Lot: 388. Estimate $75. Sold for $55. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian. AD 117-138. BI Tetradrachm (24mm, 12.87 g, 12h). Dated RY 22 (AD 137/138). Laureate head right / Π ΡO N OIA, Pronoia standing facing, head left, holding phoenix and transverse scepter; KB/L (date) in lower left field. Köln 1243 var. (bust with slight drapery, arrangement of rev. legend); Dattari (Savio) 7459a; K&G 32.770; RPC III 6252; Emmett 881.22. VF, toned, some porosity. One year type (tetradrachm) for Hadrian.

Pronoia (“foresight”) was an Oceanid nymph and wife of the Titan Prometheus, who was sentenced to eternal torture for stealing fire from the Olympian gods for use by humans.