Hadrianus BI Tetradrachm, Alexandria

Hadrianus (117-138 AD). BI Tetradrachm (25 mm, 13.26 g). Dated RY 15 (=AD 130/131), Egypt, Alexandria.
Obv. AVT KAI TPAI A∆PIA CЄB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from behind.
Rev. Alexandria standing right, holding vexillum and presenting grain ears to Hadrian standing left, holding scepter; L IE (date) in field.
Geissen 1026; Dattari (Savio) 1267; BMC 669; Milne 1294.

Toned and good very fine.

Struck to commemorate the emperor’s visit to Alexandria in AD 130. It was during this visit that Hadrian’s favorite, the Bithynian youth Antinous, drowned in the Nile.