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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 5144402, member: 57495&quot;]I didn&#039;t go through search results in RPC online very thoroughly, but I&#039;d say they&#039;re more common than the CNG records show, but not actually outright common.&nbsp; The CNG search shows none for a few varieties where examples do in fact exist, and looking specifically at the low percentage in CNG for the Nilus seated variety with ΙϚ, when I took two common (Rated 1 and 2 in Emmett) A-Pi regnal years (RY 9 and RY 11) for seated Nilus on drachms, RPC Online shows the opposite :</p><p><br /></p><p>RY 9 : 32 out of 34 examples covered in <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13577" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13577" rel="nofollow">13577</a>, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14878" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14878" rel="nofollow">14878</a>, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14879" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14879" rel="nofollow">14879</a>, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/15312" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/15312" rel="nofollow">15312</a> have the ΙϚ and only 2 don&#039;t.</p><p>RY 11 : 18 out of 19 examples covered in <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13622" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13622" rel="nofollow">13622</a>, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/15881" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/15881" rel="nofollow">15881</a> have the ΙϚ, and 1 doesn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, looking in RPC again at another common year, RY 18, in all 15 examples, the ΙϚ has been dropped.</p><p><br /></p><p>So... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie21" alt=":bear:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; How about I just post another coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1207723[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS</b></p><p>AE Drachm. 26.83g, 33.5mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 5 (AD 141/2). Emmett 1628 (R3); Dattari 2776; RPC Online temp 14830. O: Laureate head right. R: Nilus seated right on rocks upon which a crocodile climbs, Alexandria-Euthenia wearing elephant-skin headdress standing left, holding corn ears and sistrum; [L E] in exergue.</p><p><i>Ex Robert L. Grover Collection, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1981.413)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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