Egypt. Alexandria. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Drachm (Bronze, 34.20 mm, 22.99 g). Dated RY 5 (= 141/2). ΑΥΤ [Κ Τ ΑΙ]Λ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹΕΒ Laureate head right. Rev. Bust of Heracles, wearing lion skin, club over shoulder, and draped bust of Hermes, crowned with lotus right, before winged caduceus; L–Є (date) below. Dattari-Savio 8508. RPC IV.4, 460. Geissen 1393. Milne 1678. Emmett 1538 (5). Small edge nicks, otherwise, Good Very Fine. Very Rare. Ex Numismatica Aretusa SA (Franco Chiesa) October 1975. Splendid and realistic portrait of Antoninus Pius on the obverse of this valuable drachm with, on reverse, the side-by-side busts of Herakles, who appears on coins almost solely during Antoninus Pius reign, and of Hermes as messenger of the Gods, but transformed in Hermanubis, according the Egyptian theology, deity who accompanied the dead to the afterlife. Specimen of singular rarity (Emmett 5).