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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 4589323, member: 74968&quot;]I usually spend an hour or two every night looking for coins others missed or perhaps did not want. I always check the unsold lots from auction houses you never know what you might find.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will be the first to admit that this is an ugly coin. However, it is also unique so far. This coin is the only one known. I love finding rare Flavian coins and I am always on the lookout for Dattari plate coins. Turns out this coin satisfies both. I have seen and ogled many Alexandrian coins with the Canopic reverses. I find this and other reverses on these coins to be interesting. Yes [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] I blame you for this (thanks).</p><p><br /></p><p>Just read the history of this coin below in the attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your favourite Dattari coins. (No they do not have to be plate coins)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Vespasian Æ Obol of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 7 = AD 74/5. [AYTOK KAIΣ ΣEBA OYEΣΠAΣIANOY], laureate head right / Canopus right; L [Z] (date) in right field. RPC 2446.1 (this coin); Dattari (Savio) 373 (this coin); Emmett 219. 4.47g, 16mm, 12h.</p><p><br /></p><p>Extremely Rare; the only known example.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin published in A. Savio, Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari Numi Augg. Alexandrini (Trieste, 1999);</p><p>This coin published in A. Burnett, M. Amandry, I. Carradice, Roman Provincial Coinage, vol. II (London and Paris, 1999);</p><p>Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 46, 5 June 2018, lot 406;</p><p>Ex Naville Numismatics 28, 22 January 2017, lot 314;</p><p>Ex Dattari Collection, formed in Egypt prior to 1901.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The first photo is from RPC online and the second is from Roma.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136436[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1136437[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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