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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mat, post: 25116437, member: 21445&quot;]Very nice addition.</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><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.postimg.cc%2F6qvFWT3L%2Fnerosnake.jpg&amp;hash=01f4c37bda3994aa75e756e9e77144dc" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Nero (54 - 68 A.D.)</p><p>Egypt, Alexandria</p><p>Billon Tetradrachm</p><p>O: NEΡΩ KΛAY KAIS SEBA GEP AVTO, laureate head right.</p><p>R: NEO AGAQ DAIM, Agathodaemon serpent, coiled with head up, holding poppies and grain ears, L ς (date) to left. Year 6.</p><p>23mm</p><p>13.11g</p><p>Milne 203; Emmett 106.6 (R4) ; RPC 5260</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Agathodaemon was a good spirit/demon that was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians.</b></p><p><b>He had the shape of a serpent with a human head.</b></p><p><b>The Greek inscription on the reverse of this coin shows that this is the &quot;neo&quot; or &quot;new&quot; agathodaemon serpent, or, in other words, the new good spirit (of rule by Nero).</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/qMDnZnNZ/846489.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b>Antoninus Pius (138 - 161 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>AE diobol</b></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria</b></p><p><b>O:Laureate bust r., drapery on l. shoulder.</b></p><p><b>R: Agathodaemon erect, crowned with skhent; in field, L-IE. issued 151-2 (year 15)</b></p><p><b>7.45g</b></p><p><b>23mm</b></p><p><b>RPC Online 15718 (this coin), Dattari-Savio Pl. 162, 3066 (this coin).</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>From the Dattari collection.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>From the Orfew collection, ex Naville 34 lot 281, 17.09.2017.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>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.</b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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