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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4096499, member: 84744&quot;]A very nice target of opportunity, [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER]!&nbsp; I definitely see the appeal of the portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Erm, that would be me I believe. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I was happy to learn I didn&#039;t outbid you directly and it was some other underbidder I stepped on!</p><p><br /></p><p>Contemporary counterfeits of Roman provincials from Alexandria are extremely rare, and have fetched high prices in CNG auctions.&nbsp; (Actually it was one of these that [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-nero-tetradrachm-from-alexandria.353147/#post-3991006" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/new-nero-tetradrachm-from-alexandria.353147/#post-3991006">was famously Clio&#039;d on</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There were four(!) Alexandrian counterfeits in the auction that are also Dattari plate coins, and certainly from the Luxor hoard Newell found in 1908.&nbsp; I accidentally ended up with two.&nbsp; Let&#039;s talk, Z? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1065816[/ATTACH]</p><p>Egypt, Alexandria. Dattari. Nero, 54-68 Tetradrachm circa 64-65 (year 11), contemporary counterfeit produced at the time of Hadrian. 24mm., 12.48g. Radiate bust r., wearing aegis. Rev. AYTOKPA Eagle standing l. on thunderbolt, palm over far wing; in l. field, LIA. RPC 5283. Dattari-Savio Pl. 316, 44 (this coin).&nbsp; From the 1908 Luxor hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1065817[/ATTACH]</p><p>Egypt, Alexandria. Dattari. Nero, 54-68 Tetradrachm circa 67-68 (year 14), contemporary counterfeit produced at the time of Hadrian. 24mm., 13.02g. Radiate head l.; in front, LIΔ. Rev. Radiate head of Augustus r. RPC -. Dattari-Savio Pl. 318, 71 (this coin).&nbsp; From the 1908 Luxor hoard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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