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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3239291, member: 56859&quot;]I&#039;m with Doug-- I don&#039;t particularly like billion or potin but I love the coins of Roman Egypt, especially the interesting reverses.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I was just re-photographing a handful of coins, among them a billion tetradrachm of Trajan.&nbsp; Aside from the flan flaw (or maybe a scrape of some sort), the metal is the best I&#039;ve seen for that era in Roman Egypt tetradrachms.&nbsp; I&#039;ll post it after editing the images.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, here are a couple of bronze denominations from Vespasian.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cointalk.com%2Fproxy.php%3Fimage%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cointalk.com%252Fproxy.php%253Fimage%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fstatic.wixstatic.com%25252Fmedia%25252Fae43f8_44c4e46b9df34b8b91de3f509ca39f2a%25257Emv2.jpg%25252Fv1%25252Ffill%25252Fw_1000%25252Ch_625%25252Cal_c%25252Cq_90%25252Fae43f8_44c4e46b9df34b8b91de3f509ca39f2a%25257Emv2.jpg%2526hash%253Dc96228ef48de89645f15a0bc10b7124f%26hash%3D81e4a7f1d29e9c16298746310180a3e4&amp;hash=6e073d38d6c536c13c4c16ffbfa9042e" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Vespasian</b></p><p>year 4, CE 71/2</p><p>Diobol (very underweight; thin flan), 25.4 mm, 5.45 gm</p><p>Obv: AVTOKKAIΣΣEBAOVEΣΠAΣIANOV; laureate head right</p><p>Rev: bust of Isis left; LΔ in right field</p><p>Ref: Emmett 217.4</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_75a032be82974f5794910426c383b15d.jpg_srb_p_1000_503_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Vespasian</b></p><p>year 5, CE 72/3</p><p>obol, 21 mm, 5.2 gm</p><p>Obv: AVTOKKAIΣΣEBAOVEΣΠAΣIANOV; laureate bust right</p><p>Rev: hawk standing right; LE in left field</p><p>Ref: Emmett 222(5) R1, Milne 430[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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