Gemini III, January 9th, 2007
Lot # 389 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$1750 / Price 
Realized: US$1200 

Antinous, Favorite of Hadrian. Bronze drachm (25.08 gm). 
Egypt, Alexandria, Year 19 = 134-135 AD. 
ANTINOOY - [HPWOC], bust draped right, wearing hem-hem crown 
L IČ, Antinous as Hermes on horseback right, nude except for 
cloak around shoulders, and holding caduceus; horse rears 
with both forelegs in air. 

Unpublished reverse-type var of Cologne 1276 and Dattari 
2080. 

Antinous’ horse is usually shown pacing right, with either 
its left or its right foreleg reaching to the ground, and 
its other foreleg raised. On our coin the horse instead 
rears right, with both forelegs in the air. It is most 
unusual to find an unpublished variant of this well-known 
and comparatively common type. 

© 2006 Gemini, LLC 

Sold for $1200 [ $1380, 1066.74 EUR, 703.8 GBP] 

Re-used by permission of Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com) and
Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com)