EGYPT, Alexandria. Trajan. AD 98-117. Æ Diobol (26mm, 10.15 g, 12h). Dated RY 11 (AD 107/8). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Serpent Agathodaemon erect to right, crowned with skhent, coiled around caduceus and grain ears; L IA (date) in exergue. Köln 471; Dattari (Savio) 7283; K&G 27.124; RPC III 4253.2; Emmett 643.11 (R5). Brown surfaces, porosity, edge split. VF. Very rare.
From the Dr. Thomas E. Beniak Collection, purchased from Barry Murphy, 18 January 2003.
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