Egypt. Alexandria. Trajan, 98-117. Drachm (Bronze, 35.34 mm, 18.71 g). Dated RY 20 (= 116/7). ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ΑΡΙ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ ΠΑΡ Laureate head of Trajan to right, with aegis on his left shoulder. Rev. Trajan driving quadriga of elephants to right, holding eagle-tipped scepter in his left hand and branch in his right; L K (date) in upper right field. Dattari-Savio 774. RPC III 4938.1. Emmett 462. BMC 514. SNG France 1258. Minor roughness, otherwise, Good Very Fine. Rare year of reign. Ex Hirsch 105, 1977, lot 3225. Ex Hirsch 317, 18.02.2016, lot 2088. We encounter here a bronze drachm of exceptionally large form with centred and intact images and an original brown patina spread evenly over obverse and reverse, where the ‘invictus imperator’ is celebrated at the head of a quadriga of African elephants in his twentieth and final year of reign.