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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3239255, member: 19463&quot;]I, too, am fond of the coins of Alexandria but I am not at all fond of billon as a metal.&nbsp; There are tetradrachms of each period that suffer less from the alloy from which they were made and the circumstances that they encountered over the centuries.&nbsp; Most people judge coins by wear but I have a fondness for solid looking, smooth surfaced and disease free examples whatever their color or alloy.&nbsp; In Alexandrians, this seems especially important.</p><p>Hadrian</p><p>[ATTACH=full]847562[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]847564[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius Severus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]847565[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Maximinus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]847566[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Philip I</p><p>[ATTACH=full]847567[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;Ovaballathos&#039; and Aurelian</p><p>[ATTACH=full]847568[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian</p><p>[ATTACH=full]847569[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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