Question - Elagabalus Tetradrachm?

Thanks, TIF. Not as nice as Doug's, to be sure, but the inscription is more readable than my other one. This one has the Lambda before the Delta in Diocletian.

 

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I like it very much. If we want to be really picky the spacing of the legend should move the O next to the Y since Greek used the diphthong OY for the W sound that starts Valerius. You will see it used in Vespasian and Valerian as well. The Γ is for Gaius which has no o. Transliterations are a problem in every language and we are rarely fully consistent when we do such things. Latin/Greek are pretty easy compared to what we face on some Eastern languages being expressed in English.