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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7362414, member: 110350&quot;][USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER], if I had seen that coin before you, I would have snapped it up in my toothy jaws before you could get anywhere near it. It&#039;s wonderful!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m afraid that my only two coins with crocodiles are precisely the ones you&#039;d expect, although the Hadrian is from an uncommon year for the type (with Nilus seated rather than reclining):</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus AE (Brass) Dupondius, 9-3 BCE, Colonia Augusta Nemausus [Nîmes] (Galla Narbonensis province) Mint. Obv. Heads of Agrippa left and Augustus right, back to back, with Agrippa wearing combined laurel wreath and rostral crown, and Augustus wearing oak wreath, IMP above heads and DIVI F below [<i>Imperator Divi Filius</i>] / Rev. Crocodile right standing on two palm branches, chained to palm-shoot standing behind it, with tip of shoot leaning to right; wreath above and to left of palm-shoot, with long ties extending behind shoot to right, COL - NEM to left and right of palm-shoot. “Type III” of Augustus &amp; Agrippa/Crocodile coin (see <a href="https://multicollec.net/1-mo-h/1h04" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://multicollec.net/1-mo-h/1h04" rel="nofollow">https://multicollec.net/1-mo-h/1h04</a>).&nbsp; RIC I 158 (p. 52), RPC I 524 (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=1&amp;number=524" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=1&amp;number=524" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=1&amp;number=524</a>), Sear Greek Imperial Coins 157 (D. Sear, <i>Greek Imperial Coins and their Values</i> (1982)], Sear RCV I 1730 (ill.). [<i>See Sear RCV I at p. 337:</i> <i>Commemorates conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE; influenced by Augustus’s settlement of veterans of Egyptian campaign in Nemausus after colony was founded in 27 BCE.</i>] 28 mm., 12.09 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1283219[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 22 (137/138 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate bust right, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Nilus seated left on rocks, holding reed in right hand and cornucopiae in left; crocodile below; L KB (Year 22) in left field. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 6254 (2015); RPC III Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6254;" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6254;" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6254;</a> Emmett 879.22 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 1569 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay)]; Köln.1241 [Geissen, A., <i>Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen</i>, Köln, Band II (Hadrian-Antoninus Pius) (Cologne, 1978, corrected reprint 1987)].&nbsp; 24 mm., 12.9 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1283220[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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