Watch List notes:

EGYPT, Alexandria. Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 11.58 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 (AD 164/5). Λ AVPHΛIO[C] OVHPOC CЄB, bareheaded bust right, slight drapery / Aphrodite standing facing, head left, holding helmet in her extended right hand and balancing a shield inscribed ∆V/NA/MIC (in three lines) on short column with her left; Є/[L] (date) to lower left. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 3646bis (this coin); K&G 39.112; Emmett 2327.5; Kellner p. 115, pl. 9, Abb. 8 (this coin). VF, toned, attractive even surfaces.


From the A.K. Collection. Ex Aufhäuser 5 (5 October 1988), lot 324; Dattari Collection, 3646bis.