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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3162152, member: 56859&quot;]Wonderful!&nbsp; I love that Hadrian tet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have many plate coins-- Dattari, Dattari-Savio, Lindgren-- but the only &quot;discovery&quot; was that this awesome Domitian diobol&#039;s pedigree wasn&#039;t fully listed by CNG.&nbsp; That is remarkable and although the coin wasn&#039;t inexpensive, I wonder if competition for it might have been even greater had the pedigree also noted that the coin is illustrated <b>twice</b> in Emmett&#039;s &quot;Alexandrian Coins&quot;:&nbsp; the obverse for the Domitian section heading, and both obverse and reverse in a highlight about this unusual reverse type.&nbsp;&nbsp; Emmett doesn&#039;t have a ton of coins images, making the inclusion even more special.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I&#039;ve posted this coin several times in the last few days <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domitianagathodaemononhorse-rt-jpg.759269/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian.</b> Regnal year 10, CE 90/91. Æ diobol (25mm, 10.86 g, 12h). AVT KAICAP ΔΟ ΜΙΤ CEB ΓΕΡΜ, laureate head right / Agathodaemon serpent, wearing the skhent crown (emblematic of upper and lower Egypt), on horseback galloping left; L I (date) below. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&amp;G 24.109; RPC II 2585; SNG Copenhagen 214; Emmett 277.10 (R5).</p><p><i>Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection</i></p><p><i>Ex West Coast/Lloyd Beauchaine Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 41, 19 March 1997), lot 1110</i></p><p><i>Ex Classical Numismatic Review Vol. XVI, No. 1 (January 1991), lot 31</i></p><p><i>Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (18 October 1990), lot 2365</i></p><p><b>Appearances:</b></p><p>Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 39 (<i>this coin</i>)</p><p>Obverse illustrated in Emmett as the header for the Domitian section, p. 24 (<i>this coin</i>)</p><p>Fully illustrated in Emmett, p. 26 (<i>this coin</i>, discussing the unusual reverse).</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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