EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 12.91 g, 12h). Dated RY 16 (AD 112/113). Laureate head right / Draped bust of Alexandria right, wearing elephant-skin headdress; L I ς (date) across field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 646bis & 4225 (this coin); K&G 27.442; RPC III 4652; Emmett 370.16 (R5 = Dattari 646bis). Toned with a few spots of verdigris, some porosity. Fine. Extremely rare type for this regnal year. The authors of RPC cite three specimens, and only one specimen, this coin, in CoinArchives.
Ex Naville Numismatics 34 (17 September 2017), lot 243; Giovanni Dattari Collection, no. 4225.