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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7608892, member: 110350&quot;]The three earliest Roman radiate crowns I have are:</p><p><br /></p><p>This Alexandrian tetradrachm of Nero with a personified Alexandria on the reverse (RPC I 5289, Emmett 109.12) (the Nero isn&#039;t a &quot;double&quot; denomination of any kind, so I don&#039;t know the explanation for the radiate crown):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309930[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>and these two dupondii, issued by Hadrian (Virtus, Sear RCV II 3670):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309934[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;and Antoninus Pius (Pietas &amp; children, RIC III 1035):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309936[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The earliest antoninianus I have is this coin issued by Caracalla (ca. 215-217 AD, RIC IV-3 311(d)) with Venus Victrix on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309938[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, my earliest radiate coin of any kind, from ca. 188-170 BCE, is this example of a radiate Helios on a plinthophoric drachm from Rhodes (HGC 6, 1457):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309940[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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