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Message:: [QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 7794104, member: 120820"]I'd be interested to read your theories, but to me it seems the Alexandrian coins have too much in common, both with each other and with those from the other cities, not to be part of the same series. The coins from all three issuing cities/mints (Nicomedia, Antioch, Alexandria) all follow the same pattern, with one side having the form [DEO] [SANCTO] <deity>, and the other side GENIO <city>. [ATTACH=full]1338036[/ATTACH] The Alexandrian coins all share the same reclining Nilus reverse, with the Nile river arguably being of more importance to Alexandria/Egypt than their city genius. The rare "GENIO ALEXAND" type seems to have been issued following the pattern all mints were told to follow, then rapidly replaced/augmented with the more logical "SANCTO NILO" where the legend now matches the design. The "DEO SANCTO NILO" type posted by [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] is then just a further variation on the "SANCTO NILO" type. The whole series is full of inconsistencies (such as the Antioch IOVI!), but the "GENIO ALEXAND" type seems to very clearly follow the pattern, and IMO it's hard to see much daylight between that type and the other Alexandrian ones. Edit: Just replaced some text with an image since the formatting was lost.[/QUOTE]