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Lot # 375
Egypt. Alexandria. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Drachm (Bronze, 30.22 mm, 29.59 g) dated RY 4 (= 140-141) ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹЄΒ ЄΥϹ ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ Laureate head of Antoninus Pius right. Rev. [L ΤΕ]ΤΑ[ΡΤΟΥ] date around. Draped bust of Selene right, crowned with crescent on taenia, torch to right. RPC IV.4, 304 (this coin, + ill.). Dattari-Savio - . Geissen - . Emmett 1680. Nice light-brown tone. Very Fine. Ex Gorny & Mosch 196, 07-09. 03. 2011, lot 2309. Another drachm, probably unique, from the same year as the previous one, with the imposing draped bust of Selene-Artemis on the reverse wearing the crescent moon on her head and a torch on the front. The engraver on the reverse could be the same as the drachm nr. 117 of this collection.