A new tet for my hoard, this one featuring Aurelian. Picked it up from @Brian Bucklan It has wonderfully smooth/brown surfaces. Wish all Potin Tets. looked like this. Really the pic doesn't do it justice. Aurelian (270 - 275 A.D.) Potin Tetradrachm Egypt, Alexandria O: A K Λ ΔOM AVΡHΛIANOC CEB, Laureate and cuirassed bust right. R: Eagle standing right on wreath, head turned left; star above right, L D right. Dated RY 4 (272/3 AD) 11.25g 21mm Köln 3076; Dattari 5492; Milne 4398 var. (no star); Emmett 3933 var. (same)
That's a lovely Aurelian tet! Here's a not lovely aurleian tet! The picture is kind of bad, but the coin looks better in a "bad" pic actually. This is one I took a gamble on with a ebay listing that had blurry scanned pic. Gamble didn't pay off.
Congrats @Mat!!! You 'hit it out of the park' with that Potin Tet----a WONDERFUL example!! My best (of about three I own) is this Tet of Claudius II:
Nice one. Here's my 3rd cent. tetradrachm, also from @Brian Bucklan : Herennius Etruscus, Roman Empire AR tetradrachm Obv: EPENN ETPOY ME KV DEKIOC KECAP. bare-headed draped bust right, one dot below Rev: DHMARC EX OVCIAC, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings open, wreath in beak, S C below Mint: Antioch Date: 250-251 AD Ref: Prieur 628; BMC 610
