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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8170970, member: 110350"]And here's an odd error I noticed recently, made by Silbury Coins in the UK, a perfectly reputable dealer (from whom I purchased my new Trajan Danuvius denarius), in describing the reverse of another Trajan denarius:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.silburycoins.co.uk/product/trajan-98-117ad-silver-denarius-arabia-stg-right-bird-at-feet/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.silburycoins.co.uk/product/trajan-98-117ad-silver-denarius-arabia-stg-right-bird-at-feet/" rel="nofollow">https://www.silburycoins.co.uk/product/trajan-98-117ad-silver-denarius-arabia-stg-right-bird-at-feet/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>"Trajan 98-117AD Silver Denarius Arabia stg. right, Bird at feet</p><p>£95.00</p><p><br /></p><p>Code: FR580</p><p>Trajan 98-117AD Silver Denarius Arabia stg. right, Bird at feet</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 3157, 17x18mm, 3.35g</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin comes with old tickets.[ATTACH=full]1427456[/ATTACH]</p><p>Shouldn't any knowledgeable ancient coin dealer know that the animal standing next to Arabia in the denarius with ARAB ADQ in the reverse exergue is supposed to be a camel, not a bird? Even if it looks more like a flamingo/ ostrich?! (Also, the proper Sear RCV II number is 3118, not 3157, which has a reverse with Ceres standing left and has nothing to do with Arabia.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't even try to count the number of times I've discovered that a dealer on VCoins or MA-Shops -- we're not talking ebay here! -- has assigned the wrong RIC or RSC number to a coin. Bird vs. camel, though, is a pretty big mistake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8170970, member: 110350"]And here's an odd error I noticed recently, made by Silbury Coins in the UK, a perfectly reputable dealer (from whom I purchased my new Trajan Danuvius denarius), in describing the reverse of another Trajan denarius: [URL]https://www.silburycoins.co.uk/product/trajan-98-117ad-silver-denarius-arabia-stg-right-bird-at-feet/[/URL] "Trajan 98-117AD Silver Denarius Arabia stg. right, Bird at feet £95.00 Code: FR580 Trajan 98-117AD Silver Denarius Arabia stg. right, Bird at feet Sear 3157, 17x18mm, 3.35g This coin comes with old tickets.[ATTACH=full]1427456[/ATTACH] Shouldn't any knowledgeable ancient coin dealer know that the animal standing next to Arabia in the denarius with ARAB ADQ in the reverse exergue is supposed to be a camel, not a bird? Even if it looks more like a flamingo/ ostrich?! (Also, the proper Sear RCV II number is 3118, not 3157, which has a reverse with Ceres standing left and has nothing to do with Arabia.) I can't even try to count the number of times I've discovered that a dealer on VCoins or MA-Shops -- we're not talking ebay here! -- has assigned the wrong RIC or RSC number to a coin. Bird vs. camel, though, is a pretty big mistake.[/QUOTE]
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