Egypt. Alexandria. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Drachm (Bronze, 33.2 mm, 21.63 g). Menelaites Nome, dated RY 8 (= 144/5). Laureate head right. Rev. MЄNЄ ΛAЄITHC Harpokrates of Canopus as a youth, nude from the waist up with the lower body of a crocodile, holding cornucopia with his left arm, right hand raised to his mouth, wearing skhent and standing left; lit altar to left; L H (date) in exergue. Emmett 1819 (1). Geissen-Weber p. 278, Plate XIX, 185. RPC IV.4, 787.81 (this coin cited). Extremely fine. Ex Bonhams IV, 04.12.1980, lot 440. Drachm issued for the nome Menelaite (Lower Egypt) by Antoninus Pius in his eighth year of reign (144-145 AD), the last of the series of the nomes Alexandrian coinage. On the obverse is a refined laureate bust of the emperor. On the reverse is depicted in fine style Harpokrates right half-naked, with half-human and half-crocodile body. He has the Upper and Lower Egypt double crown on head, the finger of the left hand in the mouth, while holding a cornucopia with his left arm. It is an image of the local Horus in the hybrid form of the godlike crocodile Sobek. Specimen mentioned in RPC IV. 4.