Egypt, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Diobol (Bronze, 24.00 mm, 7.10 g). Dated RY 2 = AD 138/9. AVT K T AIΛ AΔP ANΤωNINOC ЄYC CЄB Bare head right, slight drapery over far shoulder. Rev. Harpokrates, wearing hem-hem crown, seated on lotus-flower left, raising fingers to lips and holding lotus (or flail?); ЄTOYC B (date) around. RPC IV. 4.146.15 (this specimen cited). Dattari-Savio 8458. Emmett 1751. Very rare. Very Fine. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction 66, 09.01.2020, lot 747. This relatively circulated but remarkably rare diobol was issued like its preceding in the second year of Antoninus Pius' reign, and the artistic bare-headed portrait of the emperor on the obverse is by the same skilled hand as the engraver of diobol no. 281 in the collection. Another rarity is the image on the reverse depicting the boy Harpokrates crouching on the lotus flower rising from below. The lotus flower is the one from which, according to Egyptian theological legend, Harpokrates was born, but it also refers to the rising sun and the most important festival dedicated to him took place on the first day of the harvest and the god was also associated with the cults of his mother Isis.