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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dadams, post: 2963820, member: 82194&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman">My first coin of 2018 is the result of a Croc fixation for the last month or so . . . late last year I picked up a lot of cut dupondii from Colonia Nemausus featuring Augustus and Agrippa on the obverse and a chained crocodile on the reverse.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to get a whole example of the COL-NEM at some point, but haven&#039;t found one to my liking yet.&nbsp; In any case, I started looking at other coins featuring crocodiles and was immediately attracted to the river-god Nilus types. Hadrian&#039;s seem prevalent among the offerings:</font></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/ancient/Hadrian_RPC-6087.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Roman Provincial Egypt. Hadrian, 117-138 AD. Billon Tetradrachm.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Mint of Alexandria, Egypt, struck AD 135/136 AD.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Obv: ΑVΤ ΚΑΙC ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟC CΕΒ - Laurate and bearded bust of Hadrian facing left.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Rev: Nilus reclining on crocodile holding reed in right hand and cornucopiae in left; regnal year LK (year 20) in upper left field.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">23.5mm, 13.36g, 12h </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">cf. Dattari 1436, Milne 1491, Emmett 879, Köln 1196, RPC 6087</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Ex. Pavlos S. Pavlou</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I&#039;m not overly educated about Hadrian and his travels but enjoyed the couple of chapters on Egypt found in Ferdinand Gregorovius&#039; <i><a href="https://archive.org/stream/emperorhadriana01greggoog#page/n146/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/emperorhadriana01greggoog#page/n146/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">The Emperor Hadrian</a>.</i></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I&#039;d love to see everyone&#039;s crocodile coins, Hadrian Tets, or whatever, so post &#039;em if you got &#039;em.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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