EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (35mm, 22.14 g, 12h). Zodiac series. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/5). VF.

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EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (35mm, 22.14 g, 12h). Zodiac series. Dated RY 8 (AD 144/5). AVT K T AIΛ A∆P ANTωNЄINOC CЄB ЄVC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Jupiter in Pisces – Bust of Zeus (Jupiter) right, wearing taenia and draped on left shoulder, transverse scepter across right shoulder; star of eight rays before; fish right and left below; L H (date) across field. Köln 1897; Dattari (Savio) 2980; K&G 35.261; RPC IV.4 838.5 (this coin); Emmett 1692.8. Green and brown surfaces, minor roughness, flan flaws. VF. Rare.

From the Dr. Thomas E. Beniak Collection. Ex Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica/Spink Taisei, 16 November 1994), lot 843; Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection (H. Schulman, 6 June 1969), lot 3422; Münzen und Medaillen AG XIII (17 June 1954), lot 953.


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