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<p>[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 2591991, member: 44183"]<span style="color: #0000ff">Yah, this is my second conquest from today's sweet auction ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Hmmm, sure I admit that I may have got caught-up in a wee bit of auction-trigger-finger?!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=> but after I've stretched and got over the hammer-price, I'm super pumped about this second addition ... it's a very neat coin </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. Æ Diobol</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">AD 138-161</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Dated RY 5 (AD 141/2)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 23 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 9.71 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Laureate head right</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Apis bull standing right, head facing; before, altar; above, L Є (date)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reference: Köln 1383; Dattari (Savio) 3089; K&G 35.174; Emmett 1737.5 (R3)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Other: 12h … dark green patina with earthen highlights/deposits, a few scratches on the reverse, holed in antiquity. Rare</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]564432[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 2591991, member: 44183"][COLOR=#0000ff]Yah, this is my second conquest from today's sweet auction ... Hmmm, sure I admit that I may have got caught-up in a wee bit of auction-trigger-finger?!! => but after I've stretched and got over the hammer-price, I'm super pumped about this second addition ... it's a very neat coin [/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#ff0000]EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius. Æ Diobol[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000]AD 138-161 Dated RY 5 (AD 141/2) Diameter: 23 mm Weight: 9.71 grams Obverse: Laureate head right Reverse: Apis bull standing right, head facing; before, altar; above, L Є (date) Reference: Köln 1383; Dattari (Savio) 3089; K&G 35.174; Emmett 1737.5 (R3) Other: 12h … dark green patina with earthen highlights/deposits, a few scratches on the reverse, holed in antiquity. Rare[/COLOR] [ATTACH=full]564432[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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