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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3440073, member: 56859&quot;]I think that is a good assumption.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps, but Emmett included D-S coins in his survey and there are matches to gsimonel&#039;s coin in D-S (#7273 and #7276, see the first two pictures below).&nbsp; Emmett 617 is the <i>only</i> Trajan drachm reverse with Zeus standing <b>in a temple.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>As you noted, maybe the table-like object is a stele (third picture below, D-S 7262).&nbsp; That reverse was issued over an earlier and wider range of years.&nbsp; Perhaps the engraver was confused or mixed up the reverse scene on coins of the type gsimonel has?</p><p><br /></p><p>It is unusual though that Emmett included so few details about the Zeus-standing-in-temple reverses, notwithstanding the painful detail to which he subdivides simple eagle reverses, reminiscent of RIC-level flyspecking <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; It is difficult to make out detail on many of the coins in D-S, but on the Zeus-standing-in-temple drachms of Trajan I see the following variations and all are lumped in to Emmett&#039;s #617.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>Zeus standing left in temple, holding sceptre, his right hand holding a thunderbolt (or something) and reaching towards an altar, eagle on exergual line right</li> <li>Zeus standing left in temple, holding sceptre, his right hand holding a thunderbolt (or something) and reaching towards an altar, no eagle</li> <li>Zeus standing left in temple, holding sceptre, his right hand holding a thunderbolt (or something), reaching towards a low table/stele/stool/something, eagle on exergual line left</li> <li>Zeus standing left in temple, holding sceptre, his right hand holding a thunderbolt (or something, maybe), eagle on exergual line right</li> </ul><p>If we were to pick apart the temple details, eagle placement, and eagle head direction and add that to the mix, it would surely make &quot;rarities&quot; of every Zeus-standing-in-temple coin of Trajan <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no doubt that the type of coin in the OP is rare in the marketplace though.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]913379[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]913381[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]913383[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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