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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2670904, member: 19463&quot;][ATTACH=full]594710[/ATTACH] Hadrian, Caesarea, Cappadocia, AR drachm</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I know most of you shop for coins from a list but I like to go to a show and see what follows me home.&nbsp; The above was today&#039;s take from a very small show.&nbsp; I bought it for a number of reasons none of which had anything to do with its poor condition.&nbsp; None were paricularly good reasons since I don&#039;t really specialize in Hadrian and this is a specialist&#039;s coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. It is a drachm while Caesarea didrachms and hemidrachms are seen more often.&nbsp; I found two of these on acsearch but both were much nicer.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=62312" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=62312" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=62312</a></p><p><br /></p><p>2. The obverse legend includes at the right an R for the B in CEBACTOC although most letters are weak or gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The reverse legend spells out &quot;Pater Patridos&quot; while the vast majority of coins using this title abbreviate it to, at most, Patri.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. The seller was a friend and, while I was there, I saw no one else looking at his coins. I did hear three people ask to see his 90% silver or try to sell him something an ancient dealer would not want.&nbsp; I only went to the show because it was under 10 miles from my home.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. This is the third coin I have bought in March after not buying anything in February.&nbsp; Being on the wagon is no fun.</p><p><br /></p><p>The above reasons are not necessarily in order.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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