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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2629177, member: 75937&quot;]Do you have any coins that served as the plate coin for a coin reference? I&#039;d love to see them!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]578215[/ATTACH] </p><p>Annia Faustina, 3rd wife of Elagabalus, Augusta, 221 CE.</p><p>Isinda, Pisidia, AE 25 mm</p><p>8.55 gm; 25.0 mm</p><p>Obv: ANNIAN FAVCTEINAN, Dr. bust of Faustina r.</p><p>Rev: Confronted heads of Serapis and Isis, in field, E-Delta (yr. 4 ).</p><p>Refs: Ex Lindgren I A1322A, ex von Aulock, Pisidia I 833 (Plate coin for both references).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a xerox of the page from Lindgren I:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]578216[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The other one, a plate coin in Houghton&#039;s <i>Coins of the Seleucid Empire</i>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]578218[/ATTACH] </p><p>Laodike IV, wife and sister of both Seleucus IV and Antiochus IV, 175-164 BCE.</p><p>Selucia in Pieria. Æ (15 mm, 3.33 g). </p><p>Obv: Veiled bust of Laodike IV. </p><p>Rev: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ, Elephant head l. Prow. </p><p>Refs: Houghton, CSE 113 (plate coin); Forrer 183.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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