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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PeteB, post: 6397295, member: 99412&quot;]Shown before, but fits well in this thread:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1253457[/ATTACH] </p><p>Antoninus Pius. ALEXANDRIA HARBOR SCENE. Alexandria, Egypt; dated 154/155 AD (year 18). Æ drachm (32 MM). Obv: Bust of Antoninus Pius, l. Rev: Isis Euploea standing facing, head left, holding grain ears upward in right hand, reversed rudder in her left. To her left, prow of galley with billowing sail, moving right, behind her. Another similar galley to her right moving left (neither visible in Emmett specimen). Euthenia reclining right to Isis&#039; left and river-god Nilus holding rudder, reclining left on the right at her feet. Date “L – IH” across upper fields.</p><p>Reverse like Emmett 1589; Milne 2290 variant; BMC 1173 variant; Dattari 2899, but obverse bust left. Traces of drapery on obverse bust, so Dattari-Savio 8776. Probably from the same obverse die. As such, the second known variety.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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