Dear
Laurent and Board,
Okay, let's give this another go...
The link is dead, probably because the coin was reattributed, possibly as this
Antoninus Pius issue:
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/17067In my original post, I claimed
Dattari had recorded an example, but in the specimen list of the present coin
type, we have a single piece described as residing in
Athens. The "D 6728"
part is a
bit hard to understand, but in researching the matter a little, it doesn't appear to be a
Dattari reference, but rather a museum accession number plus the
collection it was from. Other RPC entries seem to lengthen the 'D' to "Dem." which sounds a
bit like Giovanni di
Demetrio:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/AUTH223547https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/bibliography/35A browsing of Félix
Feuardent's 1873
catalog of
Demetrio's
collection, however:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Numismatique_%C3%89gypte_ancienne/ew8fAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=1568...did not turn up a match for RPC IV 17067 (temporary) (or at least one that I could find). Therefore, to see what the Athens/Demetrio coin looks like, I would advise you to first contact
RPC Online and see if they have a private image available. If not, then you may want to contact the Epigraphic and Numismatic Museum in
Athens to see if they have already published the coin in one of their SNGs (doubtful), or can provide photos of the coin for your private research. I
had contacted them some years ago for a different project, and they were quite friendly and helpful, but due to personal circumstances at the time, I was not able to
complete the (little) paperwork needed to get the ball rolling.
On one final note, we should not assume my original suggestion of
Alexandria is correct for the coin under study in this
thread. That said, a fresh
search on
RPC Online did not come up with any new promising candidates.
Hope some of this helps a little.
Best regards,
Mark Fox
Michigan
