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<p>[QUOTE="nicholasz219, post: 2829281, member: 75641"]Hello all,</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=21445]@Mat[/USER] sold me a few pretty cool tetradrachms of Egypt this week. Included was this beauty.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6289&pos=4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6289&pos=4" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6289&pos=4</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see from my attribution I am mostly lacking in having Milne and various other Roman Provincial references. I couldn't find it on WW and that basically is the entent of my resources.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any help on the obverse legend? The left side is kind of wonky. The reverse has LH for year eight on it. At first I thought it was LP but upon closer examination there are serifs at the top and bottom of the leftward vertical stroke of the letter. The tiniest of breaks between the top serif and right side of the letter makes me feel it is an H. As you can see the coin was struck slightly off flan on the reverse to the right so my letter trails off the edge. Any thoughts?[ATTACH=full]666457[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasz219, post: 2829281, member: 75641"]Hello all, [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER] sold me a few pretty cool tetradrachms of Egypt this week. Included was this beauty. [url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=6289&pos=4[/url] As you can see from my attribution I am mostly lacking in having Milne and various other Roman Provincial references. I couldn't find it on WW and that basically is the entent of my resources. Any help on the obverse legend? The left side is kind of wonky. The reverse has LH for year eight on it. At first I thought it was LP but upon closer examination there are serifs at the top and bottom of the leftward vertical stroke of the letter. The tiniest of breaks between the top serif and right side of the letter makes me feel it is an H. As you can see the coin was struck slightly off flan on the reverse to the right so my letter trails off the edge. Any thoughts?[ATTACH=full]666457[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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