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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mat, post: 7780156, member: 21445&quot;]Knew I had others.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/pr871xZs/hadtet2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Hadrian (117 - 138 A.D.)</p><p>Egypt, Alexandria</p><p>Billon Tetradrachm</p><p>O: AYT KAI-TPAI AΔPIA CEB, Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind.</p><p>R: L Δ_EK_ATOY Agathodaemon erect right at left, wearing skhent and enfolding caduceus, facing Uraeus erect left at right, wearing disk and horns, enfolding sistrum, their tails knotted together and holding a club erect.</p><p>Alexandria Mint, 125/126 (Year 10)</p><p>10.6g</p><p>19.5mm</p><p>Emmett 804 Dattari 1552; BMC 668; Milne 1164; Curtis 351; Demetrio 1247</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Rare</p><p><br /></p><p>The Caluceus refers to Hermanubis, the Sistrum is a symbol for Isis and the Club refers to Harpocrates.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/qMDnZnNZ/846489.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Antoninus Pius (138 - 161 A.D.)</p><p>AE diobol</p><p>EGYPT, Alexandria</p><p>O:Laureate bust r., drapery on l. shoulder.</p><p>R: Agathodaemon erect, crowned with skhent; in field, L-IE. issued 151-2 (year 15)</p><p>7.45g</p><p>23mm</p><p>RPC Online 15718 (this coin), Dattari-Savio Pl. 162, 3066 (this coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Dattari collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Orfew collection, ex Naville 34 lot 281, 17.09.2017.</p><p><br /></p><p>Giovanni Dattari assembled what was undoubtedly the best ever collection of Imperial-era Alexandrian coins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; see Lucia Carbone, “Giovanni Dattari and His Fabled Collection of Alexandrian Coins,” ANS Journal (Issue 2, 2018), pp. 6-27.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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