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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7979406, member: 110350"]I just noticed a minor typo in your description: since the coin is Year 3, then by definition it must be Emmett 218.3 rather than 218.1. Also, fyi, I recently bought a used copy of Milne's catalog of Roman Alexandrian coins in the Ashmolean collection (the 1971 reprint with supplement), and your coin is Milne 417 at p. 12. I think that Milne is by far the most comprehensive and detailed -- and most complicated to use! -- of the four Roman Alexandrian catalogs I own (along with Emmett, K&G, and BMC Alexandria 16): it has separate entries for each variety of each type, including varieties in the placement and design of the date, and not only substantive legend varieties but varieties in where the legend breaks. There's even a key to the different varieties of wreath ties on the obverse portraits! Plus, to save space, almost every aspect of every entry is coded, with the keys to the different codes on several different pages both in the front and the back of the book as well as at the beginning of each emperor's section. Fortunately, there's apparently only one variety of the Vespasian Year 3 diobol with a bust of Serapis on the reverse, so there's no question as to which number applies to your coin.[/QUOTE]