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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2566623, member: 56859&quot;]Here&#039;s another ex-Dattari coin from the same auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>The auction listing documented this coin as an obol; it is not.&nbsp; It is a diobol.&nbsp; However, the weights do seem to vary a bit and this isn&#039;t the first such question of denomination I&#039;ve seen among lower and middle weight Alexandrian coins. More listing errors:&nbsp; the reverse was touted as Agathodaemon.&nbsp; It is a uraeus.&nbsp; The sistrum was called a caduceus.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sure find a lot of errors when browsing Roman Egyptian coins in auctions, even with sellers who are higher end.&nbsp; Perhaps that is because I own reference books and check, whereas I don&#039;t have reference books for many other types of coins.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;d find just as many errors with other types of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin appears as a listing in Dattari&#039;s 1901 publication, both as a described entry plus as a plate coin (photo of a plaster cast?).&nbsp; It also appears as a plate coin in the Savio book (photo of a pencil rubbing).&nbsp; I wonder if the pencil rubbing was of the plaster or of the coin?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]554499[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria.&nbsp; Marcus Aurelius</b></p><p>year 12, CE 171/2</p><p>AE diobol, 22 mm, 7.53 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; [MAV]PHΛIOC ANTω[ΝΙΝΟCCE]; laureate bust right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; Uraeus serpent erect left, wearing headdress; &quot;holding&quot; sistrum and grain ear; LI - B across upper fields</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Dattari 3605 and Pl. XXXII, 3605 (this coin). Dattari-Savio Pl. 193, 3605 (this coin); Geissen --; Emmett 2260.12, R5</p><p><i>ex Dattari collection (Giovanni Dattari, 1858-1923)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Description of this coin in <b>Dattari&#039;s Numi Augg. Alexandrini</b>, Volume 1, 1901; p. 240:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]554510[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Plate of this coin&#039;s reverse, <b>Dattari&#039;s Numi Augg. Alexandrini</b>, Volume 2, 1901; plate XXXII:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]554511[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Savio, Adriano. <b>Numi Augg. Alexandrini: Catalogo della Collezione Dattari</b>, 2007, plate 193:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]554512[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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