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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 6511896, member: 26430"]Good topic! I have a few ex-Dattari Collection coins (I keep an eye out for them, along with a few other collections I like), but this one is my favorite.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only one of mine, I think, that has one of those fun pencil rubbings in Dattari-Savio. It was the original Dattari 4731 coin, though it wasn't pictured in the 1905 catalog.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting detail about this coin. Both dies are, as far as I can tell, otherwise unpublished/unphotographed and the obverse has a unique legend break. I suppose the coin is not exactly rare by Roman Provincial or Egypt, Alexandrian standards (where one regularly sees coins with only a few other examples, or none), as I've found at least 12 photographed examples (<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3037" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3037" rel="nofollow">9 in RPC Online, plus the pencil rubbings</a>). But having an apparently unique obverse legend break (G-ORDIAN rather than GO-RDIAN), which I don't know that anyone had previously taken note of, makes it an interesting one for me.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1260245[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1260246[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>Roman Provincial. Gordian III (238-244). Billon Tetradrachm</b> (23mm., 12.35g, 12h). Struck in Egypt, Alexandria, 243-4 AD.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>Obverse</b>: Α Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ƐΥ <i>(see Numis. Notes below)</i>. Laureate, draped & cuirassed bust of Gordian right, seen from behind.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>Reverse</b>: Bust of Helios facing right, radiate & draped, seen from behind. In fields, L-Z (Regnal Year 7).</p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>References</b>: Dattari 4731 (this coin, not illustrated); Dattari-Savio plate 252, 4731 (this coin illustrated); RPC VII.2 Online <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3037" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3037" rel="nofollow">Temp. 3037</a> (this coin <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/11417" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/11417" rel="nofollow">illustrated, #11417</a>); Milne 3466; BMC Alexandria 1859; Emmett 3407; K & G 72.137.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>Pedigree</b>: Ex-Naville Numismatics (London) Auction 60, #308; Ex-Giovanni Dattari Collection.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><u><i><b>EDIT:</b></i></u> Scratch that, I guess I have one other that may be illustrated with Dattari's pencil rubbings (plate 210, 9612), at least according to Naville Numis., and RPC (I don't have my own copy of D-S yet so I haven't double-checked this one for myself, which of course is a "best practice"):</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left">[ATTACH=full]1260268[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/321513" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/321513" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/321513</a></p> <p style="text-align: left"><a href="https://www.coinarchives.com/a/openlink.php?l=1549796|3233|365|c46789577c8b17c7d0e784c85c416dda" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinarchives.com/a/openlink.php?l=1549796|3233|365|c46789577c8b17c7d0e784c85c416dda" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinarchives.com/a/openlink.php?l=1549796|3233|365|c46789577c8b17c7d0e784c85c416dda</a></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 6511896, member: 26430"]Good topic! I have a few ex-Dattari Collection coins (I keep an eye out for them, along with a few other collections I like), but this one is my favorite. The only one of mine, I think, that has one of those fun pencil rubbings in Dattari-Savio. It was the original Dattari 4731 coin, though it wasn't pictured in the 1905 catalog. Another interesting detail about this coin. Both dies are, as far as I can tell, otherwise unpublished/unphotographed and the obverse has a unique legend break. I suppose the coin is not exactly rare by Roman Provincial or Egypt, Alexandrian standards (where one regularly sees coins with only a few other examples, or none), as I've found at least 12 photographed examples ([URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3037']9 in RPC Online, plus the pencil rubbings[/URL]). But having an apparently unique obverse legend break (G-ORDIAN rather than GO-RDIAN), which I don't know that anyone had previously taken note of, makes it an interesting one for me. [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1260245[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1260246[/ATTACH] [/CENTER] [LEFT][B]Roman Provincial. Gordian III (238-244). Billon Tetradrachm[/B] (23mm., 12.35g, 12h). Struck in Egypt, Alexandria, 243-4 AD. [B]Obverse[/B]: Α Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ƐΥ [I](see Numis. Notes below)[/I]. Laureate, draped & cuirassed bust of Gordian right, seen from behind. [B]Reverse[/B]: Bust of Helios facing right, radiate & draped, seen from behind. In fields, L-Z (Regnal Year 7). [B]References[/B]: Dattari 4731 (this coin, not illustrated); Dattari-Savio plate 252, 4731 (this coin illustrated); RPC VII.2 Online [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3037']Temp. 3037[/URL] (this coin [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/11417']illustrated, #11417[/URL]); Milne 3466; BMC Alexandria 1859; Emmett 3407; K & G 72.137. [B]Pedigree[/B]: Ex-Naville Numismatics (London) Auction 60, #308; Ex-Giovanni Dattari Collection. [U][I][B]EDIT:[/B][/I][/U] Scratch that, I guess I have one other that may be illustrated with Dattari's pencil rubbings (plate 210, 9612), at least according to Naville Numis., and RPC (I don't have my own copy of D-S yet so I haven't double-checked this one for myself, which of course is a "best practice"): [ATTACH=full]1260268[/ATTACH] [URL]https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/321513[/URL] [URL]https://www.coinarchives.com/a/openlink.php?l=1549796|3233|365|c46789577c8b17c7d0e784c85c416dda[/URL][/LEFT][/QUOTE]
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