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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 5141447, member: 85693&quot;]Great post - I&#039;ve seen some sources claiming that the repairs under Septimius Severus stopped the statue from &quot;singing.&quot;&nbsp; Others that it sings still</p><p><br /></p><p>Last year I found some Roman Egyptian uglies in my local dealer&#039;s $2 junk box (!).&nbsp; One of them thwarted my attribution attempts, both are homely:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1206393[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Hadrian&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Hemidrachm?</b></p><p><b>(Year 14 / 129-130 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Alexandria Mint </b></p><p>AYT KAI TPAI AΔPIA CEB, laureate,draped and cuirassed bust right / LI - Δ Isis Pharia standing right, holding sistrum and billowing sail.</p><p>RPC III 5748; Dattari 1753 (?).</p><p>(Lightweight forgery or Diobol?&nbsp; Fake?)</p><p>(7.79 grams / 27 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note:</b></p><p>Weight is light for hemidrachms of this era, but about right for a diobol.&nbsp; No diobols of this type are listed for Hadrian.&nbsp; Light tetradrachm?&nbsp; Fake?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Provenance Note: </b> Flip stated &quot;Found in Egypt 1972&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the other one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1206394[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Hadrian&nbsp; Billon Tetradrachm</b></p><p><b>(Year 10 / 125-126 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Alexandria Mint </b></p><p>AYT KAI TPAI AΔPIA CEB, laureate,draped and cuirassed bust right / LΔE-KATOY, bust of Selene right, crowned with crescent on taenia.</p><p>(9.50 grams / 24 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note: </b></p><p>RPC III, 5595 tetradrachm: </p><p>Average diameter 24 mm</p><p>Average weight 8.98 g</p><p>Specimens 14</p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5595" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5595" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/5595</a> 9/17/2019</p><p>RCV (2002) 3728; Dattari 1482; Milne 1109; Geissen 916</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Provenance Note:&nbsp; </b>Cardboard flip stated &quot;Found in Egypt 1972&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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