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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3330874, member: 56859&quot;]I won&#039;t trot out my umpteen Dattari and Dattari-Savio plate coins again but one is worth bringing up since the topic involves Sear&#039;s RCV.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently, [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] found that my Domitian Snake cowboy diobol, is a plate coin in Sear Vol. 1 (Sear RCV I 2868, page 511)!&nbsp; I don&#039;t have that book yet but should buy it.&nbsp; Meanwhile, could someone who owns the book send or post a picture of that page?&nbsp; To my knowledge it is my only Sear plate coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is also illustrated in Emmett... twice... which is very notable because there are so few coins illustrated in Emmett.&nbsp; The portrait is used for the beginning of the Domitian section and both sides of the coin are shown in a special inset about the type.</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></p><p>Regnal year 10, CE 90/91</p><p>Æ diobol (25mm, 10.86 g, 12h)</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; AVT KAICAP ΔΟ ΜΙΤ CEB ΓΕΡΜ, laureate head right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; Agathodaemon serpent, wearing the skhent crown (emblematic of upper and lower Egypt), on horseback galloping left; L I (date) below</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&amp;G 24.109; RPC II 2585; SNG Copenhagen 214; Emmett 277.10 (R5).</p><p><b>Provenance:</b></p><p><i>Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection</i></p><p><i>Ex West Coast/Lloyd Beauchaine Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 41, 19 March 1997), lot 1110</i></p><p><i>Ex Classical Numismatic Review Vol. XVI, No. 1 (January 1991), lot 31</i></p><p><i>Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (18 October 1990), lot 2365</i></p><p><b>Appearances:</b></p><p>Staffieri, <i>Alexandria In Nummis</i> 39 (this coin)</p><p>Emmett, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i>; obverse illustrated as the header for the Domitian section, p. 24 (this coin) and fully illustrated on p. 26 as a featured (this coin)</p><p>Sear, <i>Roman Coins and Their Values, Vol. I</i>, #2868, p. 511 (this coin)</p><p><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 have a smattering of plate coins from other books.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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