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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 5144091, member: 57495&quot;]Thanks, Curtis... this reply and the comparisons clarify for me what you originally meant. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I don&#039;t disagree, but do think it makes the exceptions all the more interesting.&nbsp; Did the idea of having the IϚ &quot;bleed&quot; into those non-reclining varieties (not from year 16) that did have them?&nbsp; And, at the very least, I&#039;m now a little less annoyed with my A-Pi reclining Nilus drachm without the IϚ (just a very little bit less, to be honest <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207611[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/15243" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/15243" rel="nofollow">RPC IV.4, 15243</a> is one variety that has the ΙϚ in place of a genius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207612[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not the same variety as the one you show, but here&#039;s a Nilus and Euthenia reclining with the ΙϚ.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207614[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not early as cool as the hippo riding type, but a hippo biga is still pretty cool, right?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207618[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And just to throw it out there, sometimes you get the ΙϚ but no genius...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207625[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting point of note, it seems the reclining Nilus type was introduced during Domitian&#039;s reign, but none of the several varieties had the ΙϚ.&nbsp; The convention seems to have started with the issues of Trajan.&nbsp; Domitian did however issue this very cool type which actually shows Nilus surrounded by all 16 pekheis!&nbsp; Their having gone to the trouble, I wonder why they decided to replace the sphinx on the sculpture with a hippotamus?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207639[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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