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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1851217, member: 19463&quot;]I do not own the book but had the great stroke of luck that you posted sample photos of the pages necessary to catalog my latest purchase.&nbsp; Considering the number of pages, that is a bit amazing.&nbsp; It illustrates a good point, IMHO.&nbsp; The seller of my coin listed it as a Milne 3503 (obverse B3) but your pages make me believe the correct answer is obverse A2 .&nbsp; The difference is the position of the obverse legend.&nbsp; I fail to find an A2 with this reverse so I really need to research this more.&nbsp; What this shows is that one should not quote catalog numbers (Milne or others) without actually looking at the book.&nbsp; I also should have researched this better before posting this which has required immediate updating after I read the coin more closely.&nbsp; I do not know whether the seller derived the number from some listing like Sear (he quoted a Sear number from Millenium volume 3 but I don&#039;t have it so I don&#039;t know) or if he looked it up in Milne and did not understand the system.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is that my interest in Alexandrian Philip stops a bit short of caring where the legend break falls.&nbsp; I bid on the coin because I really liked the portrait style and have no idea if all A2 coins have this portrait or all LA (year one coins do).&nbsp; I agree with the opinion that such catalogs need to be fully illustrated and continue to value our 2014 era online photo resources very highly.&nbsp; It does bother me that it is easier to get 100 different photos of some rare coins than it is to find them of something like Alexandrian tets.&nbsp; Perhaps, in time, this will improve.</p><p><a href="http://www.ebayitem.com/261371635623" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebayitem.com/261371635623" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebayitem.com/261371635623</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I only have one other Philip tet but it is a C1 (thanks to your first image).&nbsp; Unfortunately you didn&#039;t show the year four listings.&nbsp; Can&#039;t win them all.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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