435, Lot: 291. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. BI Tetradrachm (22.5mm, 11.95 g, 12h). Dated RY 19 of Antoninus Pius (AD 155/156). Draped bust right / Bust of Nilus right, wearing taenia and two lotus leaves, slight drapery; behind, reed; before, cornucopia from which emerges genius crowning Nilus with a wreath; L I-Θ (date) across field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 3257; K&G 38.110; Emmett 1954.19 (R2). VF, dark brown patina with touches of green and red. Rare.