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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XI | Auction date: 8 January 2008 |
| Lot number: 527 | |
| Lot description: EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Drachm (33mm, 23.73 g, 12h). Labor of Hercules type. Dated RY 4 (AD 140/1). AVT [K] T AIL ADR • ANTwNEINOC EYC E B, laureate head right / Hercules standing left, lion skin over left shoulder, holding club overhead in right hand, in left hand the right arm-tentacle of the anthropomorphized Lernaean Hydra; L TETA P TOV (date) around . Köln 1347 (same dies); Voegtli type 12e; Ramage 126 (this coin); BMC -; Dattari (Savio) 8487 (same rev. die); Milne 1681b = Emmett 1545.4. Good VF, brown and green patina with area of brick-red on obverse, edge damaged in antiquity. Extremely rare. From the James E. Cain Collection. Ex David Simpson Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 1775; John W. Garrett Collection (Part I, Numismatic Fine Arts & Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 801. Estimate: 3000 USD |  |
