Egypt. Alexandria. Hadrian, 117-138. Obol (Bronze, 18.6 mm, 5.11 g). Leontopolite Nome, dated RY 11 ( = 126/7). Α[ΥΤ] ΚΑΙ [ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ CЄΒ] Laureate head of Hadrian to right, with slight drapery on his left shoulder. Rev. [ΛЄΟ]ΝΤ L ΙΑ Ares-Mahes standing front, head to right, holding spear in his right hand and lion in his left. Emmett 1240. Dattari 6282. Geissen-Weber p. 304, plate XXIII, 218. RPC III, 6470. Ex Michel Dürr Roland Michel, 16 November 1998, lot 758. Let us move to the nome Leontopolite of the Lower Egypt with this obol of the year 11 of Hadrian (126-127 AD) showing on the reverse the personification of the greatest local divinity Mahes – Miysis meaning “lion” or “Osiris the lion”, son of the feline goddess Bastet or Sachmet. Here is portrayed as Ares – Mahes, bellicose, standing right with cuirass, jambes and spear but without helm. Such an iconography is very similar to that on the coins with Horus – Mahes, combative like Ares. The coin has two coeval holes restored.