Egypt. Alexandria. Trajan, 98. Drachm (Bronze, 35.60 mm, 23.89 g). Dated L I Γ= year 13 (109 / 110 AD) ΑΥΤ KAI TPAIAN CEB ΓEP ΔAKIK Laureate and draped bust of Trajan right. Rev. Anepigraph; in n the centre on the exergual line, a half-naked Triptolemus driving a chariot right pulled by two beneficial winged and paired Agathodaemones snakes with "pshent" crowns. Triptolemus is wearing an elephant leather cap and a light chlamys covering his shoulders. He holds a flap containing seeds in his left hand which he spreads towards the ground with his right hand; under the exergual line, the date, L I Γ. Vogt I, pp.78-79. Vogt II, p. 31. Dattari 1042, this coin. Geissen 541. RPC III 4454.1.2 this coin. Emmett 601. STAFFIERI, G. M., Alexandria in Nummis, pp. 127-128, Muzzano 2017. Very fine, regular and intact brown patina. Ex Giovanni Dattari Collection 1042, Il Cairo. Ex Naville Numismatics 45, 09.12.2018, lot 278. Trajan’s portrait is superb and shows all the solemn and composed calmness of the sovereign, a great leader and at the same time, enlightened head of state. It is a very rare coin (grade 5 according to Emmett). The Greek Eleusinian myth of Triptolemus is connected to that of Demeter, who in Egypt transforms into Isis-Demeter who protects and promotes the fertility of the Nile together with Triptolemus-Osiris. He is the legendary sower who here, stimulated by Demeter, flows to spread the seeds flying over the fields from Upper to Lower Egypt on the chariot pulled by the Egyptian Agathodaemones who here replace the dragons of the analogous Greek theology.