Ancient NP: Herennia Etruscilla tetradrachm

The mail came through with exceptional service today dropping off my latest new coin. This is a 24mm 12.88g billon tetradrachm (or bronze if you require enough silver to see) of Herennia Etruscilla, wife of Trajan Decius, from Alexandria. She is represented by four reverse types, all someone standing there. This is Tyche listed by Emmett as #3653 LA = year one (rarity 3). As with most Alexandrian tetradrachms, this is quite thick so I decided to photograph it from an angle showing off part of the edges. Focus was retained by using CombineZ focus stacking software (eight shots per side). The obverse legend abbreviates an extra word of of her name than found on her Roman coins. The Greek version also alters some letters from what might be expected.
hERennia KOUPressenia AITROVCKILLA CEbacta


I would love to see any Alexandria coins of any of Decius' family that you might have.

 

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Very nice find, Doug. I like this one very much,

 

Super coin! Love the Tet... How thick is it?

As to your All Call... Nope, nada, zilch: Nary an Alexandrian issue for that Clan.

 

Nothing from me but what a wonderful picture!

 

wow! (00) nice coin and funky pic.( thought i'd sniffed too mush verdi-care><)

 

Very nice coin and a amazing photo!!

Sadly, not a single example from Alexandria in my collection

I'll bet @TIF has one....

 

Great coin and super photo!

 

great oblique shot of a cool coin!

i got nothin' up this alley.

 

~4mm thick

 

That's a beauty, Doug, and a very interesting photo technique!

I don't have any Alexandrian tets of Decius or Herennia Etruscilla. In fact, I have only one provincial of hers, this one from Viminacium:


Herennia Etruscilla, AD 149-151
Roman provincial AE 27
Moesia Superior, Viminacium, AD 149-150
12.67 g; 27.45 mm; 07:00
Obv: HER ETRVSCILLA AVG, diademed and draped bust, r. on crescent.
Rev: PMS COL VIM, Moesia standing facing, head l., between bull standing r. and lion l.; in exergue: ANXI (year 11=AD 249/50)
Refs: Pick 136; Moushmov 48; SGI 4220 var.; BMC 3. 18, 32 var.

 

Love the shot!

 

I like the shot too. A nice and chunky tet.

 

That's a beefy coin. Awesome!

 

Doug, you're really racking up the desirable Roman Egyptian coins! I'm trying to be happy for you rather than too envious. It's a struggle

You'd lose that bet

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Doug, the images do serve to impressively demonstrate the thickness but it is jarring seeing the coins tilted so much, especially when the two sides do not quite match (I swear I'm not OCD like Steve ). I'd rather see a standard obverse/reverse set and an inset of perhaps one oblique image-stacked shot to demonstrate the thickness.

 

Good idea. A problem with that is the tilt really changes the way the light bounces off the coin and matching the images would be hard. I found it impossible to get the tilt exactly the same without building a rig to hold the coin. They never will look like a match as the coin is not evenly thick all around and rests differently depending on how you angle it.
If you didn't like the tilt shot, you really won't like this one showing how it was assembled from eight pictures.

 

oooow, but I love the reverse!!

 

I have this coin in best condition only mine has a seated person on back with snake around neck....why is this? also thank you for that post I hadn't ever found this before and didn't know anything about it. Was passed down to me.

 

We need a photo or at least a complete description of both sides and all legends if we are to have a chance of answering.

 

She accidentally dropped the pictures into another thread and her coin has already been identified (Pudicitia reverse). https://www.cointalk.com/threads/legionary-denarii-postem-if-you-haveem.293857/page-2#post-2698252

 

That's a very nice picture, indeed.

I always like coins that inspire me to relearn the history: