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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1916499, member: 19463&quot;]My two latest coins of Alexandria have a few things in common with most later Alexandrian tetradrachms but both have portrait styles that I found appealing.&nbsp; First is Gordian III from late in his reign (year 6).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]328762[/ATTACH] </p><p>Gordian is shown wearing military attire (is that a medusa head on the breastplate???).&nbsp; The face could be described as less than handsome.&nbsp; The reverse is Tyche standing.&nbsp; I find it interesting that the late Gordian legend ends in a simple EV (Eusebeus = Pius) with no CEB (Sebastos = Augustus).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]328763[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The second is a Gallienus from year three with reverse of Eirene.&nbsp; To me the obverse is the good part.&nbsp; The portrait is rugged and both draped and cuirassed.&nbsp; The legend also strikes me as odd ending in EVEVC.&nbsp; Again, I would have expected a CEB at the end.&nbsp; This is not an error but is standard for the early years of Gallienus.&nbsp; At Rome he was recognized as fully Augustus like his father but it seems that this was not the case at Alexandria.&nbsp; Later coins of Gallienus do use CEB.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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