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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 8046593, member: 56859&quot;]I&#039;ve posted very few new coins this year... other things seem to get in the way of coin time! </p><p><br /></p><p>Donna, your new acquisitions are terrific but I wish you&#039;d stick to collecting Roman Republicans <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; You and everyone else!&nbsp;&nbsp; Competition is getting stiff.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been turning to other provincials lately.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER], I don&#039;t aspire to collect a complete set of Antoninus Pius&#039;s zodiac drachms-- just too expensive and there are so many other interesting reverses that compete for my budget.&nbsp; Here are a couple I picked up because the time was right, the price was right, or nothing else got in the way:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_ccb3d403b9d74f29a7a8e0fe316bd9b7%7Emv2.jpg&amp;hash=aaf75d580912863bf3740eb69afbd743" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius</b></p><p>year 8, 144/5 CE</p><p>AE drachm, 33 mm, 22.9 gm, Zodiac series, &quot;Venus in Taurus&quot;</p><p>Obv: Laureate draped bust of Antoninus Pius right</p><p>Rev: bull butting left; above, diademed and draped bust of Aphrodite left; star before her; L H (date) in exergue</p><p>Ref: Emmett 1450.8</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/api-zodiac-leo-rt-jpg.948419/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius</b></p><p>year 8, 144/5 CE</p><p>AE drachm, 32 mm, 22.43 gm, Zodiac series, Helios in Leo</p><p>Obv: Laureate draped bust of Antoninus Pius right</p><p>Rev: Helios (Sun) in Leo: Lion leaping right; above, radiate and draped bust of Helios and six-pointed star; [L H below]</p><p>Ref: Köln 1495-6; Dattari (Savio) 2968; K&amp;G 35.278; Emmett 1530.8</p><p><i>Ex Thomas Bentley Cederlind</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have no shame at all in buying very worn but interesting Alexandrians.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here&#039;s a recent pick up that somewhat fits this description although I certainly have Alexandrians with far more wear.&nbsp; The reverse shows a sphinx with a crocodile head sticking out of its chest and a snake for a tail, with a griffin on its back.&nbsp; Weird and wacky stuff!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1392817[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria.&nbsp; Hadrian</b></p><p>RY 18 (133/4 CE)</p><p>AE drachm;&nbsp; 33 mm, 24.75 gm, 12 h</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; AYT KAIC TPAIAN AΔPI[ANOC CЄΒ]; Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Hadrian to right, seen from behind</p><p>Rev:&nbsp;&nbsp; L - IH; Sphinx standing left, wearing hemhem crown, with head of a crocodile emerging from its breast and uraeus as tail; above, griffin seated left, resting its right paw on wheel</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Dattari (Savio) 2004;&nbsp; Emmett 1056.18; K&amp;G 32.597; RPC III 5912. Rare.</p><p><i>ex Rhakotis Collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hmm.&nbsp; Hard to say, but it looks cast to me (&quot;soapy&quot; junctions of devices and the field).&nbsp; I&#039;m leaning towards cast fake of a hemidrachm (or tetradrachm) but that&#039;s just speculation and I don&#039;t have an opinion on whether the forgery was in ancient times or modern times, if it is a forgery.&nbsp; It could be authentic and just terribly underweight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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