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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shea19, post: 5126968, member: 90981&quot;]Congrats on another fantastic addition, [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] !&nbsp; That temple reverse is spectacular, and obviously that is an incredible pedigree. </p><p><br /></p><p>The oldest provenance I know of is AJ’s gold coin made from a melted-down gold statute of Nike on the Acropolis, though I’m not sure if that technically counts as “pedigree”; that coin is really its own category.</p><p><br /></p><p>My oldest pedigrees go back about 100 years or so.&nbsp; I recently shared this little Syracuse bronze with a old collector’s ticket from the 1920s:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1202714[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1202713[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sicily, Syracuse, circa 275-269 BC, (AE 20mm., 5.45g.), Wreathed head of Persephone (Kore) left,; uncertain symbol behind neck./ Rev. Bull butting l.; above, club above T; IE in exergue. Calciati 191.</p><p><i>From a Swiss collection from Tessin assembled in the 1920’s.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>My oldest pedigrees are these two from the Dattari collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1202710[/ATTACH]</p><p>Commodus, Alexandria, BI Tetradrachm,(24.2mm., 10.19g), circa 183-185 (RY 24 of Marcus Aurelius), Laureate head of Commodus right/ Rev. Commodus, in priestly attire, standing left before bust of Serapis set on low cippus, sacrificing and dropping incense over lighted altar, L-K-Δ. RPC Online 16005 (this coin), Dattari-Savio Pl. 207, 9553 (this coin)</p><p><i>From the Dattari Collection (1853-1923)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1202709[/ATTACH]</p><p>Constantius Gallus, Caesar, AE Centenionalis (23mm, 6.49 g). Alexandria mint, 3rd officina. Struck AD 351-355. Bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Soldier standing left, holding round shield and spearing fallen horseman to lower left; Γ/–//ALEΓ. RIC VIII 74.</p><p><i>Ex Giovanni Dattari Collection of Late Roman Bronzes.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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