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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8277161, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;m pretty sure you&#039;re right that Plate 117 # 2429 in Dattari Savio is my coin, although it&#039;s hard to tell! So I guess it&#039;s also safe to assume that it&#039;s also the very same coin as the one numbered as 2431 at p. 153 of the original 1901 Dattari Collection book, even though that coin isn&#039;t illustrated in any of the plates in that book. (Instead, the reverse of one of the other Phoenix variants is illustrated in one of the 1901 plates. As far as I can tell, the reverses are all the same; only the obverse portraits of Antoninus Pius vary.) In any event, I think I can safely say that the coin has a documented provenance back to at least 1901 -- older than any other coin I have except for my one siliqua from the 1887 East Harptree Hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given what you said about the numbering being generally the same in Dattari and Dattari Savio, I can only think that at some point in preparing the plates for Dattari Savio, two coins must have been accidentally skipped somewhere along the way, causing 2431 to become 2429.</p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciate your calling the coin the &quot;greatest prize&quot; in the Naville auction! I don&#039;t know if I agree necessarily, but among the large number of Roman Egyptian coins (many with a Dattari provenance), the phoenix coin (because of its great condition) and the tessera (because of its apparent uniqueness) were the two that really jumped off the page for me when I saw them.&nbsp; And those were the only two I bid on. A lot of the Dattari coins were, admittedly, in extremely worn condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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