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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4288004, member: 99456"][USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER] - I enjoyed your write-up. Here's one that I own - with it's pencil rubbing in the 2007 version of the catalog. The history of Dattari certainly adds to the interest of this coin - in case a coin from a few years before Diocletian's take down of usurper, Domitianus, in 297, the subsequent siege of Alexandria that ended in March 298 and a coin from the last Roman emperor to visit Egypt is not enough history.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/dattari-deocletian-plate-jpg.1065701/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1091499[/ATTACH]</p><p>Egypt, Alexandria, <b>Diocletian</b>, AD 284-305, BI Tetradrachm c. AD 289-290 (year 6)</p><p><b>Obv:</b> A K Γ OΥAΛ ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CEB Laureate head right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Eirene standing left, holding olive-branch and scepter; in field, S-L</p><p><b><b>Size:</b></b> 17.8mm, 6.77g</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Dattari-Savio Pl. 282, 10638 (this coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>This nicely illustrated <a href="https://www.academia.edu/37026327/Giovanni_Dattari_and_His_Fabled_Collection_of_Alexandrian_Coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/37026327/Giovanni_Dattari_and_His_Fabled_Collection_of_Alexandrian_Coins" rel="nofollow">article from ANS</a> on Datttari also worth a read on academia.edu.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4288004, member: 99456"][USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER] - I enjoyed your write-up. Here's one that I own - with it's pencil rubbing in the 2007 version of the catalog. The history of Dattari certainly adds to the interest of this coin - in case a coin from a few years before Diocletian's take down of usurper, Domitianus, in 297, the subsequent siege of Alexandria that ended in March 298 and a coin from the last Roman emperor to visit Egypt is not enough history. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/dattari-deocletian-plate-jpg.1065701/[/IMG] [ATTACH=full]1091499[/ATTACH] Egypt, Alexandria, [B]Diocletian[/B], AD 284-305, BI Tetradrachm c. AD 289-290 (year 6) [B]Obv:[/B] A K Γ OΥAΛ ΔIOKΛHTIANOC CEB Laureate head right [B]Rev: [/B]Eirene standing left, holding olive-branch and scepter; in field, S-L [B][B]Size:[/B][/B] 17.8mm, 6.77g [B]Ref:[/B] Dattari-Savio Pl. 282, 10638 (this coin). This nicely illustrated [URL='https://www.academia.edu/37026327/Giovanni_Dattari_and_His_Fabled_Collection_of_Alexandrian_Coins']article from ANS[/URL] on Datttari also worth a read on academia.edu.[/QUOTE]
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