Egypt. Alexandria. Hadrian, 117-138. Tetradrachm (Billon, 25.92 mm, 12.92 g). Dated RY 18 (= 133/4). ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. Rev. Demeter standing facing, head left, holding grain ears and long torch; L IH (date) in upper left field. Dattari-Savio 7400 corr. (date position). Dattari 1333. RPC III, 5869 var (date position). Emmett 832. Cf. Savio, Tetradrammi alessandrini, pp. 77-81. Nice patina, almost fully silvered. Good Very Fine.

Ex Münzentrum XXIX, 27.04.1977, lot 135.

On obverse imperial bust of high relief and courtly style. On the reverse, Demeter is a patron goddess of the fertility of the earth and the abundance of the harvest, often likened to Isis in Egyptian pantheism and combined with Triptolemus, the divine sower of grains from his aerial chariot pulled by winged serpents.