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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3370490, member: 56859&quot;]Wow, Jochen... another <b>fantastic</b> provincial!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I watched longingly last year as CNG auctioned a spectacular Alexandrian drachm with a similar reverse.&nbsp;&nbsp; Congrats to its winner, whoever that was.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349321" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349321" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s the coin</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/10700165.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. <i>Antoninus Pius. </i></b>AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (35mm, 28.63 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 (AD 141/142). AVT K T AIΛ A∆P ANTωNINOC ЄVCЄB, laureate head right / Orpheus Charming the Animals – Orpheus seated right on rock, playing lyre, charming numerous wild animals around him; L Є (date) across upper field. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) 2996 var. &amp; 8843-4 var. (arrangement of animals on reverse for 2996, and obverse bust type for 8843-4); K&amp;G –; Emmett 1631.5 (R5); Staffieri, <i>Alexandria In Nummis</i>137 (this coin). VF, brown patina with traces of green, minor roughness and smoothing. Extremely rare. Only the second we have handled, the first being the Wetterstrom example from CNA XIII (1990).</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection. Ex David Simpson Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 1778; Carlo Fontana Collection (Finarte Casa D’Aste 995, 26 November 1996), lot 940, purchased from Mario Ratto, Milan, 1957.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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