★ Dattari plate coin ★

EGYPT, Alexandria: Antoninus Pius (138-161), AE diobol, issued 151-2 (year 15). 7.45g, 23mm.
Obv: Laureate bust r., drapery on l. shoulder.
Rev: Agathodaemon erect, crowned with skhent; in field, L-IE.
RPC Online 15718 (this coin), Dattari-Savio Pl. 162, 3066 (this coin).
From the Orfew From the Dattari collection.
From the Orfew collection, ex Naville 34 lot 281, 17.09.2017.

Giovanni Dattari assembled what was undoubtedly the best ever collection of Imperial-era Alexandrian coins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; see Lucia Carbone, “Giovanni Dattari and His Fabled Collection of Alexandrian Coins,” ANS Journal (Issue 2, 2018), pp. 6-27.