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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2566712, member: 56859&quot;]And one more <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]554559[/ATTACH]</p><p>EGYPT, Alexandria.&nbsp; Antoninus Pius</p><p>year 19, CE 155/6</p><p>AE obol, 18.5 mm, 4.26 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; ANTωNINOCCEBEVCCV<b><span style="color: #b30000">*</span></b> [see note]; laureate head right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; Horus falcon standing right<b><span style="color: #b30000">**</span></b>, wearing skhent; LI - [Θ]<b><span style="color: #b30000">***</span></b></p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Dattari-Savio Pl. 165, 3134 (this coin); Geissen --; Emmett 1774.19, R5</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">*</span></b>&nbsp; My interpretation of the obverse legend is clearly not correct but I haven&#039;t studied what it should be.&nbsp; Based on the visible portion of the dotted border, extrapolating the circle and taking into account the intrusion of A-Pi&#039;s head, I don&#039;t think there are letters which are simply off flan.&nbsp; The legend as it appears does not match those reported by Emmett, which in theory should be AVTKTAIΛΑΔPANTωNINOCCEBEVC (for &quot;Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius&quot;).&nbsp; Maybe the last two letters I&nbsp; recorded are AV instead of C (or E) V, and maybe there is at least one letter off flan (T)?&nbsp; There simply isn&#039;t enough room for <i>all</i> of the remaining theoretical letters.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><b>**</b></span> Some sources refer to these crowned birds as hawks (Emmett), others proclaim it a Horus falcon.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">***</span></b>&nbsp; The last letter of the date is unclear.&nbsp; Unless this is an unpublished date for the type, it is Θ, making it year 19.&nbsp; This falcon-standing-right reverse was issued only in years 8 (LH), 9 (LΘ) and 19 (LIΘ).</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if I would have matched this coin with the Savio plate rubbing had the listing not specified the entry number.&nbsp; Looking at it closely, the reverse has some visible &quot;fingerprints&quot; that confirm the match (the two small flan cracks at 9:00 and 10:00, for instance).&nbsp; The obverse rubbing is not very clear and the shape looks wrong but that can be explained the the contour of the flan.&nbsp; The obverse edges are rounded, so a rubbing isn&#039;t going to catch those rounded shoulders.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]554565[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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