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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8237642, member: 26430"]Congratulations! I feel like I saw this in the CNG auction but it doesn't seem to be up in the archive yet (or coinarchives or acsearch.info or sixbid archive), though I do see the <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=322090" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=322090" rel="nofollow">EA 384 listing</a>. That's a great example.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to get one of the Antoninus ones with the Pharos and Isis Pharia <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8102206" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8102206" rel="nofollow">from Leu's sale</a> of the "Rhakotis Collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s" (I look forward to some day finding out who the collector was, it was an impressive collection!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Their description (and their photo below):</p><blockquote><p>EGYPT. Alexandria. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Drachm (Bronze, 32 mm, 22.69 g, 1 h), RY 12 = 148/9. [ΑΥΤ Κ Τ] ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤ[ⲰΝΙΝΟC CЄΒ ЄΥC] Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Antoninus Pius to right. Rev. L / ΔⲰΔЄΚΑT/O Isis Pharia, holding billowing sail and sistrum, standing to right before the Pharos of Alexandria, which is surmounted by a statue and two Tritons. Dattari (Savio) 2677. Emmett 1592.12. K&G 35.434. RPC IV.4 online 13640 </p><p><br /></p><p>[<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13640" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13640" rel="nofollow">132 specimens in RPC (!</a>), but not mine; Dattari alone had at least 9 specimens].</p></blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1449514[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8237642, member: 26430"]Congratulations! I feel like I saw this in the CNG auction but it doesn't seem to be up in the archive yet (or coinarchives or acsearch.info or sixbid archive), though I do see the [URL='https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=322090']EA 384 listing[/URL]. That's a great example. I was able to get one of the Antoninus ones with the Pharos and Isis Pharia [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8102206']from Leu's sale[/URL] of the "Rhakotis Collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s" (I look forward to some day finding out who the collector was, it was an impressive collection!). Their description (and their photo below): [INDENT]EGYPT. Alexandria. Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Drachm (Bronze, 32 mm, 22.69 g, 1 h), RY 12 = 148/9. [ΑΥΤ Κ Τ] ΑΙΛ ΑΔΡ ΑΝΤ[ⲰΝΙΝΟC CЄΒ ЄΥC] Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Antoninus Pius to right. Rev. L / ΔⲰΔЄΚΑT/O Isis Pharia, holding billowing sail and sistrum, standing to right before the Pharos of Alexandria, which is surmounted by a statue and two Tritons. Dattari (Savio) 2677. Emmett 1592.12. K&G 35.434. RPC IV.4 online 13640 [[URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/13640']132 specimens in RPC (![/URL]), but not mine; Dattari alone had at least 9 specimens].[/INDENT] [ATTACH=full]1449514[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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