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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 5143300, member: 83845"]Excellent coin [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] ! I am super jealous of all the plate coins you have been posting lately. I would love to add a Dattari plate coins someday.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the great post [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] . I agree that your example looks like a seated Nilus without the rocks. I have not seen a seated example without the rocks. Terrence Cheeseman's example definitely shows the rocks and even the Triton example shows what may be the hint of a rock formation above and below the crocodile (perhaps I am just seeing things). Your example does not appear to have even a hint of the rocks... interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also agree with you about the plates in Emmett leaving much to be desired. I was also unable to find some of the reverse types listed in Emmett (such as 1623 with 16 genii). There could be an entire companion book of plates showing the reverse types listed in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>For anyone interested here is the plate that Donna references. This is the only illustration listed for the Nilus types.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207302[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As to the rarity rankings in Emmett I am starting to think that they are not much use at all. My coin type and year was given a rarity rank of 1 for very rare but it does not seem to be. Can't really hold that against Emmett though you run into that with any standard ancient reference. Overall it is still a helpful book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 5143300, member: 83845"]Excellent coin [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] ! I am super jealous of all the plate coins you have been posting lately. I would love to add a Dattari plate coins someday. Thanks for the great post [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] . I agree that your example looks like a seated Nilus without the rocks. I have not seen a seated example without the rocks. Terrence Cheeseman's example definitely shows the rocks and even the Triton example shows what may be the hint of a rock formation above and below the crocodile (perhaps I am just seeing things). Your example does not appear to have even a hint of the rocks... interesting. I also agree with you about the plates in Emmett leaving much to be desired. I was also unable to find some of the reverse types listed in Emmett (such as 1623 with 16 genii). There could be an entire companion book of plates showing the reverse types listed in there. For anyone interested here is the plate that Donna references. This is the only illustration listed for the Nilus types. [ATTACH=full]1207302[/ATTACH] As to the rarity rankings in Emmett I am starting to think that they are not much use at all. My coin type and year was given a rarity rank of 1 for very rare but it does not seem to be. Can't really hold that against Emmett though you run into that with any standard ancient reference. Overall it is still a helpful book.[/QUOTE]
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