Appears to be Antoninus Pius. (could be wrong) I'm having trouble attributing the reverse. Can anyone help please and thank you? Dancing cat anyone?? Matt
Hadrian tetradrachm of Alexandria. Serapis standing left as stated by Ardatirion. I'd rather say year 9 because of the reverse legend continuing after L delta E with K ATOV Thus being Emmet # 891/9 Q
I agree with year 10. I don't have Emmet so I can't say what is listed there but the ninth year should be L ENATOY. Alexandria was consistent avoiding the numeral for nine (theta) because it was considered unlucky. Until Christian times reversed pagan superstitions, it is unusual to see a theta date or workshop number. I consider the coolest ones to be those from Antioch that used additive numerals 5+4 to make nine. Ten is spelled out more than some numbers but I wonder if that is to avoid confusion of the Greek numeral ten (I) with the Roman numeral one. http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=+enatoy&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1#0
Both 9 and 10 are options, but I do read DEKATOV. That would be Cerberus standing beside Serapis, by the way. Year 10 = 125-126 AD
Cerberus The 'dancing cat' is Cerberus. http://www.acsearch.info/search.htm...a+cerberus&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1#11
