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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2484876, member: 56859&quot;]For many of you these coins will not be very exciting.&nbsp; Towards the end of coin production in Roman Egypt the workmanship was pretty bad.&nbsp; The flans looked less like coins and more like aes rude.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I&#039;m very happy to welcome these into my Roman Egypt hoard.&nbsp; The first for its rarity and exceptional (for the time) artistry and the second because it is a former CoinTalk member&#039;s coin ([USER=38987]@JBGood[/USER]) and I like having coins formerly owned by forum friends.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]524946[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria.&nbsp; Diocletian</b></p><p>year 11, CE 294/5</p><p>tetradrachm, 19 mm, 7.6 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; ΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB; laureate head right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp;&nbsp; Draped bust of Selene right, crescent before; L IA behind</p><p>Ref: Emmett 4080.11, R5</p><p><i>The date looks odd, more like L I<b>E</b> rather than L I<b>A</b>.&nbsp; It can&#039;t be L IE (year 15) because production of tetradrachms in Alexandria ended in 296.&nbsp; Per Emmett, this reverse was only issued year 11.&nbsp; Could it be and unpublished L IB, with the right side of the B missing?&nbsp; Possibly, but it&#039;s probably just a somewhat blundered A.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Translation of legend abbreviations:</b></p><p>ΔIOKΛHTIANOC&nbsp;&nbsp; CEB(ACTOC)</p><p><i>Diocletian Augustus</i></p><p>L IA</p><p>regnal year 11</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a bit embarrassed to admit that I didn&#039;t look closely at this next coin before bidding.&nbsp; I took a spin through JA&#039;s private auction a few minutes before closing and decided to snag an inexpensive tet, primarily because it is a CoinTalk member&#039;s coin and I want to collect one from every member I can, but also because it was rare (or at least &quot;book rare&quot;) and I didn&#039;t already have one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than truly examining the picture, I just looked up the reference in Emmett and Diocletion/Elpis year 2, Emmett 4046, is rated R4.&nbsp; As I was preparing the images and this post, I took a closer look at the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s difficult to make out but after poring through the most likely candidates, I&#039;m reasonably sure it&#039;s Carinus.&nbsp; That&#039;s okay.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t have a Carinus with this reverse <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]524947[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria.&nbsp; Carinus</b></p><p>year 2, CE 283/4, Augustus</p><p>tetradrachm, 18 mm, 6.2 gm</p><p>Obv.: AKMAKA PINOCCEB; Laureate, cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev: Elpis standing left, holding flower and clutching hem of robe; across fields L-B</p><p>Ref: Emmett 4007.2, R1</p><p><i>from the JBGood collection</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Translation of legend abbreviations:</b></p><p>A(VTOKPATΩP)&nbsp;&nbsp; K(AICAP)&nbsp; M(APKOC)&nbsp;&nbsp; A(VPHΛIOC)&nbsp;&nbsp; KAPINOC&nbsp;&nbsp; CEB(ACTOC)</p><p><i>Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Carinus Augustus</i></p><p>L B</p><p><i>regnal year 2</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>...</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Feel free to add any coins you think fit:&nbsp; Roman Egyptian tetradrachms, coins which you initially misidentified, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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