So last night I responded to a thread and showed this Diobol of Vespasian. It is a Dattari plate coin. I finally looked it up on RPC online and there were 8 examples. One of the examples had the following note "D382?". I assumed that this referred to the Dattari coin I have in my possession. I contacted Dr. Chris Howgego at Oxford and sent him the provenance information and a new photo. This morning I heard from Dr. Andrew Burnett. Dr Howgego had forwarded my email to him. He made the changes to RPC online so now my coin is on RPC! I took a screen shot of the page on RPC. Please post your coins that are listed on RPC. Egypt, Alexandria. Dattari. Vespasian, 69-79 Diobol circa 70-71 (year 3), Æ ( 26.5mm., 9.15g.) Obv: Laureate head r. Rev. Bust of Isis r.; in front, LΓ. RPC 2430 (this coin cited). Dattari-Savio Pl. 14, 382 (this coin). Brown tone. Very Fine. From the Dattari collection. Naville Numismatics Auction #30, Lot 283, April 02, 2017. Coin depicted in the Wildwinds.com database.
Several. Here are a five. First one is the only one known. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/11395 https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/196486 https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1857 https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/172889 https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/16407
As a dealer I've owned many many coins which ultimately ended up as entries, used as illustrations, or were unique specimens. But I no longer own any of them.
I have one: http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2825 I have several unpublished coins in my collection. I attempted to submit them to RPC but they wanted a photo I had taken myself. With any luck when I figure out how to shoot good images I'll have a few more.
Super cool coin, Shanxi! Do you "count" it only if it is a unique coin or the first specimen illustrated, or are you counting any coin listed among a given type? Either way, I think I have several, but I haven't been diligent about keeping track of them like I would for a print resource and "rpc" is too short a term for me to find them by searching on CT .
If your specific coin is listed then I think it counts. However, feel free to post more of your great coins anytime.
Thanks for posting this, Orfew. While I use the RPC site often and really appreciate the work that has gone into putting the resource up online, I've never specially checked how many of my coins are included in their database. I just spent some time cross referencing my spreadsheet with the site and found a few more in addition to the ones I already knew were in there. There are probably at least a couple more cited but not pictured, but here are the screen grabs of the ones I did find. Domitian https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/128 This coin RPC II 128/1 Trajan https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1098 This coin RPC III 1098/1 Plotina https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/645 This coin RPC III 645/7 Hadrian https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3335 This coin RPC III 3335/5 Antoninus Pius https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14929 This coin RPC IV.4 temp 14929/17 Antoninus Pius https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13547 This coin RPC IV.4 temp 13547/47 Marcus Aurelius https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14367 This coin RPC IV.4 temp 14367/7 Maximinus Thrax https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/7446 This coin RPC VI temp 7446/2 Trajan Decius https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/2051 This coin RPC IX 2051/37
I have 2 coins listed in RPC. The first one is Kingdom of the Bosporus Av Stater Obv bust of Rhoemetalkes r. Rv Bust of Hadrian r 428 Bosporan era RPC 908 7.77 grms The second coin is a Commodus as Caesar from Selge Obv Bust right Rv Tyche stg left RPC IV on line number 10913 8.68 grms 24 mm
I just checked the RPC online database and I now have another coin listed. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/303762 There is only one other of this type listed. Vespasian, 69-79. Denarius (Silver, 17 mm, 3.11 g, 1 h), Ephesus, 69-70. Obv: IMP CAES VESPAS AVG Laureate head of Vespasian to right. Rev: LIBERI IMP AVG VESPAS Titus and Domitian, veiled and togate, standing front, each with patera. BMC 430. Cohen 248. RIC 1395 (R3). RPC II 805. Minor marks and slightly rough, otherwise, about very fine. From the R. Marbacher Collection, Switzerland. Leu Numismatic December 09 2018 Lot 908
