EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Hemidrachm (27mm, 10.67 g, 11h). Dated RY 9 (AD 145/6). Laureate head right / Zeus Ammon-Ra standing facing, head left, crowned with solar disk and horns, holding patera and long scepter; at feet left, ram standing left, crowned with solar disk and horns; L ЄN ATOV (date) around. Köln 1526; Dattari (Savio) 2953; K&G 35.322; RPC IV.4 944.13 (this coin); Emmett 1735.9 (R3). Brown patina. Near VF.
From the Dr. Thomas E. Beniak Collection, purchased from Beast Coins, 6 October 2008. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 37 (20 March 1996), lot 721; Kerry K. Wetterstrom Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XII, 26 September 1990), lot 195; Keith Emmett Collection.
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