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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7806741, member: 19463&quot;]&#039;Reliable&#039; might not be the word I would choose but the style from this mint often/usually has an eye rendition that is not like that from Rome.&nbsp; I do not believe in many things as &#039;universally reliable&#039; in the same vein as death and taxes but this eye is a good indicator.&nbsp; Below are denarii of Commodus, Pertinax, Septimius and Domna attributed to Alexandria followed by tetradrachms of three (forgive my lack of a Pertinax tetradrachm).&nbsp; The first &#039;discovery&#039; of this mint was nearly a hundred years ago based on this style similarity.&nbsp; We do not have mint records that back this up.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340812[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1340813[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1340814[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1340815[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1340817[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1340818[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1340819[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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