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445, Lot: 287. Estimate $300.
Sold for $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (34mm, 25.99 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 (AD 141/142). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Hermanubis standing facing, head right, holding caduceus with his right hand and long palm frond with left; to left, jackal standing left, head right; L Є (date) across field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 8516; K&G –; Emmett 1568.5 (R4). Near VF, dark reddish-brown patina with touches of green. Very rare type for this regnal year.


Ex Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Auctions XII, 26 September 1990), lot 181, purchased from Bill Kalmbach.