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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24693104, member: 26430&quot;]That&#039;s a nice big Provincial Bronze! I see why RPC picked it to illustrate the type. One of my favorite things about Roman Provincials is that there are so many published specimens available (affordably!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Plate coins are my jam, so I&#039;ll try to just pick the two most relevant ones to the original post coin. I don&#039;t have any Severus Alexander-from-Seleucia ad Calycadnum &quot;plate coins&quot;... But I do have one Seleucia ad Calycadnum &amp; several Severus Alexanders (just not together)...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my Cilicia, Seleucia, struck for Philip II, published as <i>SNG Levante</i> 777. Also a big bronze. It&#039;s in RPC Online, but not the primary plate coin. (SNG Levante 777 = <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8016350" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8016350" rel="nofollow">Merani Coll. Part II, 109</a> = <a href="https://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=322&amp;pid=2739" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=322&amp;pid=2739" rel="nofollow">AsiaMinorCoins 2739</a> = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/70283" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/70283" rel="nofollow">RPC VIII 70283</a> Temp. (<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/5883" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/5883" rel="nofollow">5th specimen</a>)).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575863[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575862[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Below is my favorite Severus Alexander &quot;plate coin.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>One nice thing was finding it &quot;in the wild,&quot; like the OP coin. Originally, both CNG and RPC thought it was the second known specimen. But I recognized it as being the only published specimen, which is from the Giovanni Dattari (1853-1923) Collection. (They were going off Dattari&#039;s pencil rubbing, but I have a bunch of those, and am pretty good at recognizing them.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So now it&#039;s also the RPC &quot;Plate Coin&quot; (the <i>only</i> coin) for it&#039;s type (called &quot;specimen #2&quot; though, because they originally thought it was different!):</p><p><br /></p><p>Dattari-Savio (1999, 2007) 12335 / 9892bis (this coin illustrated) = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/10362" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/10362" rel="nofollow">RPC VI Temp 10362 (this coin illustrated online)</a> = Emmet 3101 (7), pp. 153 &amp; 254 (this coin cited).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575869[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575868[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think of those kind of coins as a sort of &quot;bibliographic collection&quot;: the coins representing notable pieces of literature and interesting old collections and important sales. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes it&#039;s actually harder to acquire the books than the coins published inside![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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