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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8237920, member: 57495"]That's a great replacement, Donna. Mine has but a ghost of an obverse, but at least the main design on the reverse is still there, though Isis seems to have forgotten to bring along her sistrum. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1449582[/ATTACH]<b>HADRIAN</b></p><p>AE Drachm. 19.63g, 32mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 18 (AD 133/4). Emmett 1002.18; Dattari 1768 var.; RPC 5896. O: Bare head left. R: Isis Pharia holding billowing sail with both hands, sailing right toward the Lighthouse of Pharos, which is surmounted by two Tritons, each blowing a buccinum (sea shell trumpet), lantern surmounted by statue; L IH above center. </p><p><i>Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman-Egyptian Coinage, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1980.947)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8237920, member: 57495"]That's a great replacement, Donna. Mine has but a ghost of an obverse, but at least the main design on the reverse is still there, though Isis seems to have forgotten to bring along her sistrum. [ATTACH=full]1449582[/ATTACH][B]HADRIAN[/B] AE Drachm. 19.63g, 32mm. EGYPT, Alexandria, RY 18 (AD 133/4). Emmett 1002.18; Dattari 1768 var.; RPC 5896. O: Bare head left. R: Isis Pharia holding billowing sail with both hands, sailing right toward the Lighthouse of Pharos, which is surmounted by two Tritons, each blowing a buccinum (sea shell trumpet), lantern surmounted by statue; L IH above center. [I]Ex Robert L. Grover Collection of Roman-Egyptian Coinage, previously held by the Art Institute of Chicago (1980.947)[/I][/QUOTE]
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