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Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D.
Giovanni Dattari (1853 - 1923) was a self-taught collector and successful trader of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities. He held a near monopoly in the antiquities trade in Cairo, Egypt. He also shared his expertise and first-hand knowledge of Egypt with the foremost scholars of his time. Dattari assembled a collection of over 25,000 ancient coins. His 1901 work, Numi Augg. Alexandrini, cataloged 6411 of his coins from Roman Alexandria, and is still a primary reference for the coinage of Roman Egypt. Dattari also made pencil rubbings of more than 13,000 coins from Roman Alexandria in his collection; these were finally published in 2007 by Adriano Savio. In 1920, Dattari donated large parts of his collection to the Museo Nazionale Romano. After his death, the remainder of his collection was sold. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a coin that was once part of Dattari's fabled collection. His pencil rubbing of this coin is number 7130 in the Dattari-Savio catalog.RX92399. Bronze drachm, Dattari-Savio pl. 47, 7130 (this coin), RPC Online III 4807.1.5 (this coin), SNG BnF IV 1197, SNG Milan 919, F, well centered, broad thin flan, cleaning scratches, edge split, Alexandria mint, weight 10.81g, maximum diameter 34.3mm, 29 Aug 113 - 28 Aug 114 A.D.; obverse AYT TPAIAN CEB ΓEPM ΔAKIK, laureate half-length nude bust of Trajan right, chest bare, slight drapery on left shoulder, grain ears in wreath; reverse Nilus reclining left on hippopotamus, reed in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, genius and nilometer on left on far side of legs, LIZ (year 17) in exergue; ex Naville auction 48 (7 Apr 2019), lot 237; ex Dattari Collection; SOLD
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