Egypt, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Obol (Bronze, 20.00 mm, 5.95 g). Dated RY 7 = AD 143/4. AYT K T AIΛ [A]ΔP ANΤ[ωNINOC] Laureate had of Antoninus Pius to right. Rev. Griffin seated to right, forepaw on wheel; LZ (date) in exergue. RPC IV.4.723 (2 specimens cited). Dattari-Savio 8976. Emmett 1772 (for the year). Extremely rare. Good Very Fine. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 105, 19.01.2023, lot 619. A very rare coin with a miniature physiognomic portrait of Antoninus Pius on the obverse, unscathed, like the reverse, by the hole punched at the time. The reverse depicts a female griffin with the body of a lioness, spread wings and the head of an eagle, supporting the wheel with its left paw, a fantastic creature from Greek Egyptian mythology. It was the animal sacred to Nemesis, the Greek goddess of fate and compensatory justice, assimilated by syncretism into Egyptian theology. It seems that the cult of Nemesis, respectively of Isis- Nemesis, was especially practised in Memphis and Alexandria.