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E-Live Auction 6  25 Mar 2023
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Lot 101

Estimate: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 900 GBP
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Antoninus Pius Æ Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Zodiac series, dated RY 8 = AD 144/5. ΑVΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤѠΝΙΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ ЄVϹ, laureate head to right / Jupiter in Pisces: draped bust of Zeus to right, wearing taenia, sceptre over shoulder; below, two fish to right and left, star before, L-H (date) across fields. RPC IV.4 Online 13555 (temporary); Dattari (Savio) 2981; Emmett 1692; Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 150 (this coin). 20.72g, 37mm, 11h.

Very Fine; an attractive specimen from the Zodiac series, unobtrusive holing. Rare in this condition.

This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk);
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection, Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XXI, 9 January 2018, lot 125 (hammer: USD 2,250);
Ex Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection, Classical Numismatic Auctions Ltd., Auction XIII, 4 December 1990, lot 178.
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