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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3916924, member: 80804"]Someone suggested previously that it might be an Alexandrian tetradrachm of one of the tetrarchs or other later-date issuers of Provincials in the 3rd century. Although it shares many features with this group, it also apparently has a full circumference concentric legend on the reverse which is seen vanishingly seldom on the Egyptian provincials - usually only the date, occasionally the date-number may be spelled out or contracted concentrically, or the deity/personification's name occasionally is stated, but that usually requires fewer characters than this piece has in its apparent concentric reverse legend. The thickness is appropriate for an Alexandrian tet, however.</p><p>This Diocletian tet is fairly representative of what they look like in a little better condition. The weight of yours at 10 grams is a bit high, but these sometimes were that heavy - this Diocletian is 9+ grams.</p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/album306/64_Diocletian_Tyche_standing_2.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album306/64_Diocletian_Tyche_standing_2?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album306/64_Diocletian_Tyche_standing_2?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album306/64_Diocletian_Tyche_standing_2?full=1</a> </p><p>This is one on which the regnal year is spelled-out rather than represented with the modified Egyptian heiroglyphic for year => "L" and a Greek numeral or two.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3916924, member: 80804"]Someone suggested previously that it might be an Alexandrian tetradrachm of one of the tetrarchs or other later-date issuers of Provincials in the 3rd century. Although it shares many features with this group, it also apparently has a full circumference concentric legend on the reverse which is seen vanishingly seldom on the Egyptian provincials - usually only the date, occasionally the date-number may be spelled out or contracted concentrically, or the deity/personification's name occasionally is stated, but that usually requires fewer characters than this piece has in its apparent concentric reverse legend. The thickness is appropriate for an Alexandrian tet, however. This Diocletian tet is fairly representative of what they look like in a little better condition. The weight of yours at 10 grams is a bit high, but these sometimes were that heavy - this Diocletian is 9+ grams. [IMG]http://old.stoa.org/albums/album306/64_Diocletian_Tyche_standing_2.sized.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album306/64_Diocletian_Tyche_standing_2?full=1[/URL] This is one on which the regnal year is spelled-out rather than represented with the modified Egyptian heiroglyphic for year => "L" and a Greek numeral or two.[/QUOTE]
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