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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3433022, member: 56859&quot;]It might be best to combine this thread with <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aelius-ex-dattari-collection.335588/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aelius-ex-dattari-collection.335588/">the one in which you showed your Aelius</a> so that we don&#039;t have to flip back and forth between the threads for the ongoing discussion.&nbsp; You can ask a moderator to do that (just click the report button and type your request, or send one of the moderators a private message).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Where is the correction?&nbsp; I don&#039;t see it edited in the other thread nor did you post again in that thread.&nbsp; In that thread you listed your coin as being 33 mm and 11.77 gm.&nbsp; What was in error-- the diameter, the weight, or both?&nbsp; What are the actual measurements?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>[Edited:&nbsp; Oh, is your coin #28 on your table, 28 mm and 11.77 gm?&nbsp; If so, that is squarely within the expected range of a &quot;hemidrachm&quot;.]</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the entirety of <a href="https://archive.org/stream/moneteimperialig01datt#page/130/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/moneteimperialig01datt#page/130/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Dattari&#039;s original section for Aelius</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]911452[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]911453[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Dattari-Savio plate 103 shows all six coins listed in the original Dattari and none match your coin, so your coin is definitely not part of the Dattari collection <i>as listed in the original catalog</i>.&nbsp;&nbsp; It <i>could</i> still be an ex-Dattari coin though, as discussed in the other thread, but unless you can track the sale of the coin back to Dattari, you&#039;ll be taking that on faith.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Could you add another column to that table to show what denomination the coin was called in the ACsearch listing?&nbsp; That might be interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Die axis doesn&#039;t seem important in for coins of Roman Egypt.&nbsp; It was usually 12:00 or close to that.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure there is any significant meaning to be drawn from minor variations.</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>I might as well use this opportunity to show my Aelius coins again <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>First, an incredibly generous Secret Saturn gift received last year:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/aeliustet-ss2018-rt-jpg.861024/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Aelius</b></p><p>137 CE</p><p>Billon tetradrachm; 23 mm, 13.16 gm</p><p>Obv: ΛAIΛIOCKAICAP; bare head right</p><p>Rev: ΔHM EΞOVC VΠAT B; Homonoia standing left, holding cornucopiae and patera over garlanded altar</p><p>Ref: Köln 1271; Milne 1539; Emmett 1350.2</p><p><i>Ex John A. Seeger Collection</i></p><p><i>Gift from my CoinTalk Secret Saturn, 2018</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a diobol I picked up ~five years ago.</p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_0de4f044837747e9beb5ac8547bfd643.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_497,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_0de4f044837747e9beb5ac8547bfd643.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Aelius</b></p><p>year 2, CE 137</p><p>diobol, 24.5 mm, 11.5 gm</p><p>Obv: ΛA IΛ IOCKAICAP, bare head right</p><p>Rev: ΔHMEΞOVC VΠAT B, Homonoia standing left, holding patera and corn</p><p>Ref: Emmett 1353.2[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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