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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5143254, member: 110350"]Emmett lists at least two different varieties of the reverse showing a seated or reclining Nilus with head left and a crocodile below,  depicted on tetradrachms of Hadrian. One is No. 876 (Nilus reclining left, crocodile) and the other is No. 879 (Nilus seated left on rock, Crocodile). Unfortunately, his drawn illustrations of many different reverses include only "Nilus reclining" (Plate 7, No. 111), with no illustration of Nilus seated, for any emperor.. As acsearch indicates, dealers tend to be rather haphazard in assigning coins to one or the other category, seated or reclining. My coin, which I posted quite recently, is from Hadrian Year 22, which Emmett doesn't list at all for type No. 876, but says is "common" for No. 879. And Nilus does look more seated than reclining to me on my coin, suggesting No. 879.22, although that determination depends a bit on how you hold it. And I see no rock whatsoever: [ATTACH=full]1207271[/ATTACH] The catalog for the Staffieri Collection (Triton XXI) includes a coin that looks like it has the same reverse as mine[ATTACH=full]1207272[/ATTACH]The catalog describes Nilus as "seated," and classifies it as No. 879.22, but doesn't mention the mysterious rock, and asserts despite this classification, and despite Emmett's calling 879.22 "common" -- although I've found hardly any examples -- that it's a "Rare regnal year for this type." Does anyone have an example of a Nilus seated reverse that does have a visible rock? Or an example of Nilus clearly reclning on a coin of any year in year, from Hadrian or another emperor, so I can see the difference? To me, Nilus looks more like he's reclining on [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER]'s coin, and more like he's seated on [USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER]'s coin. But, again, the difference could just be a product of how far those coins are turned.[/QUOTE]

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