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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7847327, member: 110350&quot;]Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (127/128 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from rear, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ - ΤΡΑΙ&nbsp; ΑΔΡΙΑ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris* standing right, wearing solar disk as headdress, holding <i>was </i>scepter tipped with jackal head, L ΔWΔƐ-ΚΑΤΟΥ [= Year 12 spelled out].&nbsp; RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 5713 (2015); RPC III Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5713" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5713" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5713</a>,&nbsp; Emmett 883.12 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; BMC 16 Alexandria 637 &amp; Pl. XXIII [Pool, Reginald Stuart, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 16, Alexandria</i> (London, 1892)]; Sear RCV II 3732; Köln 982 [Geissen, A., <i>Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen</i>, <i>Köln</i>, Band II (Hadrian-Antoninus Pius) (Cologne, 1978, corrected reprint 1987)]; Dattari (Savio) 1445 [Savio, A. ed., <i>Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini</i> (Trieste, 2007)]; Milne 1259 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay); K&amp;G 32.458. 24 mm., 13.85 g., 11 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350906[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*From the description in the CNG Triton XXI Catalog (Staffieri Collection, Jan 9. 2018) of the example from the Dattari Collection (No. 1445), sold in the Triton XXI auction as Lot 61: The image of the Ptah-Sokar-Osiris divinity belongs to Egyptian theology, and in particular to funeral worship. It brings together three famous members of the Pharaonic Pantheon through their respective symbols: the headdress and scepter for Ptah, the solar disk for Osiris, and the mummiform wrappings for Sokar – the &quot;Lord of the Necropolis.&quot; These three associated divinities call upon the concepts of &quot;mourning&quot; and &quot;life&quot;, evoking at the same time the pain associated with death and the hope of resurrection. The main sanctuaries of Ptah, Sokar, and Osiris were at Memphis and Abydos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: another Hadrian from Alexandria.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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