Achaia, Patrae
Lucius Verus 161-169 CE
Assarion AE 20mm, 5.54g, 12h
IMP CAES L AVREL VERVS AVG Laureate head of Lucius Verus to right
Rev. COL A A PATRA Nude Neptune/Poseidon standing to left, with his foot on a rock, holding a dolphin and trident
BCD Peloponnesos I 559.4 (same dies). RPC IV.1 9645 (temporary). NCP p. 81 11
Ex collection of John Aiello
Ex Frank Kovacs October 1976
Pausanias wrote (7.21.7):
And at the harbor is a temple of Poseidon with a statue of stone, erect.
The assumption is that this is an image of that statue. Like much of ancient Patrai, the modern city has overtaken the ancient.