Egypt, Alexandria. Lucius Verus 161-169. Drachm (Bronze, 33.20 mm, 22.82 g). Dated RY 6 = AD 165/6. Λ AYPHΛIOC OYHPOC CЄB Laureate bust right, drapery on left shoulder. Rev. Shrine (or temple) with two columns and rounded pediment enclosing two canopes on cushions: one on left crowned with horns, disk, plumes and uraei, one on right wearing atef crown. Crescent, in field between heads and L Ϛ (date), across field. Geissen -. RPC IV.4.2949.4 (this specimen illustrated). Dattari-Savio Plate 204.3798 (this coin). Dattari 3798 and Plate XXIX (this reverse illustrated). Very rare and in exceptional condition for the issue. Lovely brown tone, About Extremely Fine/Extremely Fine. From the Dattari collection, illustrated in Dattari. Ex Naville Numismatics Ltd., Auction 42, 22.07.2018, lot 363. Very fine drachm formerly belonging to the entitled collection of Giovanni Dattari. A specimen of extraordinary style and conservation both for the portrait of Lucius Verus on the obverse and for the reverse with its statuary relief representation of the ritual canopic jars of Isis on the left and Osiris on the right. It is perhaps the specimen in best condition of this however rare coin that had the merit of being illustrated, as well as described, in RPC IV. 4. 2949.4 and before in Dattari's 1901 catalogue, no. 3798, in Table XXIX.