436, Lot: 388. Estimate $200. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Drachm (37mm, 28.19 g, 12h). Dated RY 15 (AD 111/2). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Isis Pharia standing right, holding scepter, clasping right hands with female figure (Isis?) standing left, holding scepter, wearing headdress of two plumes on a solar disk with a horn to either side; L I-E (date) across lower field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&G –; Emmett 531 (R5) = Christiansen, The Roman Coins of Alexandria p. 177; RPC III 4619.1 = ANS 1944.100.56301. VF, dark green patina with thick earthen deposits. Extremely rare type for this regnal year, with only the ANS example known to the authors of RPC.