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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 5129474, member: 75937&quot;]Egypt Playing a sistrum:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/hadrian-aegyptos-denarius-jpg.939862/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Hadrian, AD 117-138.</p><p>Roman fourée denarius, 2.98 g, 17.7 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome mint copy, ca. AD 138.</p><p>Obv: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head, right.</p><p>Rev: AEGYPTOS, Egypt reclining left, holding sistrum and leaning on basket, around which a snake coils. Ibis on left, facing right.</p><p>Refs: RIC 296, BMCRE 801-804, RCV 3456, Strack 294.</p><p>Notes: Underweight. The metal surface has bubbled away from the core and cracked in front of the portrait on the obverse and above the sistrum and in the exergue on the reverse, revealing it to be a fourée.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: fourée[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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