EGYPT. Alexandria. Trajan, 98-117. Drachm (Bronze, 33.66 mm, 19.02 g). L I S Year 16 = 112/3. [AYT TPA]IAN CЄB ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ Laureate half-lenght nude bust of Trajan right, wearing aegis on left shoulder. Rev. Demeter draped, seated on chair left, extending her right hand to a kalanthos on altar, from which ears of wheat sprout, and holding long torch in the left hand; date LI in the field to left, ζ to right. RPC III, 4710.1 this specimen illustred on plate 222; Dattari -; Emmett-. Unicum. Nearly extremely fine.
From the G. M. Staffieri Collection. Purchased from Seaby's, London, on April 1986.