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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4541245, member: 110350&quot;]I have found and added another reference to my description of my (expected) new Diadumenian coin that I posted above in this thread.&nbsp; The new reference is in boldface, spelled out with the full name of the source like all the others -- which is something I like to do in my own records, except for the most obvious reference works (like RIC, RSC, RCV, Crawford, etc.), in case I forget what a shorthand reference stands for:</p><p><br /></p><p>Diadumenian, AE 17, 217-218 AD, Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch. Obv. Bareheaded and cuirassed bust right, KAI MO ΔI AN TΩN[INOC CE] [<i>Caesare Marco Opellio Diadumeniano Antonino Augusto</i>] / Rev. Large S C within wreath, Δ above, ε below, star at top.&nbsp; <b>Sear, <i>Greek Imperial Coins and their Values</i> (Seaby 1982) 3017 (ill. p. 286)</b>; BMC Syria 408 (p. 201) [Wroth, W., <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 20, Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria</i> (London, 1899)]; SNG Copenhagen 235 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Copenhagen, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Danish National Museum</i>, <i>Part 36, Syria: Cities</i> (Copenhagen, 1959)]; McAlee 745c [Richard McAlee, <i>The Coins of Roman Antioch</i> (2007)]; Butcher 463 [K. Butcher, <i>Coinage in Roman Syria: Northern Syria, 64 BC - AD 253</i> (2004)].&nbsp; 17 mm., 4.33 g.&nbsp; [Footnote omitted re possible meaning of Δ and ε on reverse.]</p><p><br /></p><p>So what probably should have been the first place I looked -- given that Roman Provincial Coins online doesn&#039;t yet cover Macrinus and Diadumenian -- turned out to be the last.&nbsp; This is the first time I&#039;ve actually found a specific coin I was looking for in <i>Greek Imperial Coins</i>, and I am pleasantly surprised.&nbsp; On the whole, the book has been somewhat less useful than I had hoped when I bought it, except in generally educating me about Roman Provincial coins (which seems to have replaced &quot;Greek Imperial&quot; over the last few decades as the most common term for such coins).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the relevant entry (No. 3017) from Sear&#039;s book, with the illustration:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1124202[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In the future, I won&#039;t forget again to look in the first instance in the one book I actually own that deals with Roman Provincial coinage!&nbsp; (Not counting the coverage in RCV of coins minted in Alexandria.)&nbsp; Who knows, I might get lucky again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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