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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3225729, member: 19463&quot;]The lighthouse is given R1 by Emmett which means just about everywhere you look, you will find one.&nbsp; The $1200 coin must have been exceptionally nice. Many of the Commodus tets are R4 or R5 which means there are few known and some of them may well have been in horrid condition.&nbsp; Lets just say there are 1000 of the lighthouse coins but there are easily 2000 people who want an image of the lighthouse (people who have heard of the 7 wonders of the ancient world) so the price goes up. An R5 that is known from 2 or 3 specimens may be desired by 1 or 2 collector/specialists making the third one hard to sell. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You get duplicate numbers when a catalog is a collection like BMC or Milne rather than a compilation of what exists like RIC or Emmett.&nbsp; Listing the first number works for me.&nbsp; Note how Curtis even gives the condition of his coin.&nbsp; My experience with coins of this period is that half of them lack some or all of the date.&nbsp; That makes them a bit harder to date unless they share a die with a better coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Another favorite from the group is the lion AE diobol&nbsp; Emmett 2605.&nbsp; At R4 there are others but this is the only one of this die I have seen.&nbsp; It is ex Dattari.&nbsp; The 23 is there in exergue but where is the L?&nbsp; Is this the best or worst known?&nbsp; The other four years reported in Emmett are all R5.&nbsp; I doubt anyone is collecting the set.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]840873[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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