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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 8137457, member: 56859&quot;]Congrats on the rarities, Orfew!&nbsp; Must be difficult, being a speciality collector, when your to-find list starts to shrink along with opportunities.&nbsp; Looks like you pulled out some good ones though <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Of course I love the snake cowboy <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Secular Games denarius is very special too.</p><p><br /></p><p>As requested (this guy is getting a workout lately <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domitianagathodaemononhorse-rt-jpg.759269/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian.</b> Regnal year 10, CE 90/91. Æ diobol (25mm, 10.86 g, 12h). AVT KAICAP ΔΟ ΜΙΤ CEB ΓΕΡΜ, laureate head right / Agathodaemon serpent, wearing the skhent crown (emblematic of upper and lower Egypt), on horseback galloping left; L I (date) below. Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&amp;G 24.109; RPC II 2585; SNG Copenhagen 214; Emmett 277.10 (R5). <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection. Ex West Coast/Lloyd Beauchaine Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 41, 19 March 1997), lot 1110; Classical Numismatic Review Vol. XVI, No. 1 (January 1991), lot 316; Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (18 October 1990), lot 2365.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Appearances: Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 39 (<i>this coin</i>). Obverse illustrated in Emmett as the header for the Domitian section, p. 24 (<i>this coin</i>); fully illustrated in Emmett, p. 26 (<i>this coin</i>, discussing the unusual reverse).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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