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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dadams, post: 3279192, member: 82194&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman">Great SS gifts everyone has given and received.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I opened my package from [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] on the 17th and was pleasantly surprised with a couple coins that were perfect for me:</font></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/ancient/Severus-Alexander__Egypt-Alexandria_Emmett_3118-3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Roman Provincial Egypt. Severus Alexander, 222-235 AD. Potin Tetradrachm.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Mint of Alexandria, Egypt, struck AD 223/224 AD.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Obv: Α ΚΑΙ ΜΑΡ ΑΥΡ [СƐΥΗΡ ΑΛƐΞ]ΑΝΔΡΟС ƐΥСƐΒ - Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Rev: Nike advancing left, holding wreath and palm frond; regnal year LΓ (year 3) in lower left field.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">23mm, 12.55g, 11h; VF, dark gray-brown surfaces. Rare type for this regnal year.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Ref. Dattari (Savio) 4321, Milne 2910, Emmett 3118.3</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">cf. wildwinds.com/coins/greece/egypt/alexandria/t.html&nbsp; Milne 2910 (this coin)</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Ex. CNG Auction 407, Lot 457 (OCT 2017; unsold) From the Hermanubis Collection</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">Ex. [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER]</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">This Severus Alexander is now my fourth Alexandrian coin from Roman Egypt and certainly helps to cement my interest in this series.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">The other great coin is more so something of a curiosity from the BCD Collection which according to the flip: </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>It is said that for decades, these mysterious coins had eluded all his attempts to attribute them definitively. Indeed, so fiendishly inscrutable were they that some were rumored to have had the power to drive an inexperienced collector or a careless scholar mad unless extreme caution was used when studying them.</i></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/ancient/BCD-Incerta001.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">On this unidentified specimen I do actually see some detail and I&#039;ve already been trying my hand at discovering what this might be but found myself frothing at the mouth after only an hour so perhaps for now I&#039;ll file it away with the sole other BCD Collection coin I have and on occasion when I have a mad urge I&#039;ll pull this out to study.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">[USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] your gifts are tremendously awesome and I thank you, most sincerely, for the joy received now and in the future when I admire them in my collection. Hope you have a great New Year!&nbsp; -Doug</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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