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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3430860, member: 56859&quot;]It can be difficult to judge matches because the D-S plates are photos of pencil rubbings, but I do not see a match for a drachm or for a hemidrachm.&nbsp; There is only one plate of Aelius coins in D-S in the main portion of the book and there are no Aelius coins in the supplement.</p><p><br /></p><p>The size-weight mismatch of the OP coin is dramatic.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen a number of mismatches but none quite so disparate.&nbsp; The diameter is of a drachm but the weight is of a hemidrachm.&nbsp; I wonder what the intended denomination was when this coin circulated.&nbsp; Could this be a very porous/leached drachm?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; There is at least one other explanation (the F word), but it would be almost impossible to say by these photos alone.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have a purported ex-RBW coin that I haven&#039;t found in other sales.&nbsp; It makes me uncomfortable (the unsupported pedigree-- not the coin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).&nbsp; How many times have I seen copy &amp; paste errors... how many times have I propagated a copy/paste error <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />?&nbsp; However, D-S shows ~13,000 coins and at its peak, Dattari&#039;s collection contained ~20,000 Roman coins so it is certainly possible to have an ex-Dattari non-plate coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Without diagnostic ephemera (BCD&#039;s handwritten tags and cut-out Polaroids come to mind), how do we keep people from making up pedigrees in such a case?&nbsp; I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; I guess to be certain you&#039;d have to be able to track prior sales back to Dattari or, as a somewhat less certain avenue, a credible source, such as a dealer who was known to have bought a batch of Dattari&#039;s coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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