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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7922330, member: 44316&quot;]Here is a rare Alexandrian drachm.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368745[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan, 34 mm. 21.08 grams,</p><p>Roman Alexandria, year 13 = 110 AD.</p><p>A complicated reverse with</p><p>LI&nbsp; Γ across field</p><p>Naked man standing left, arm out over flaming altar, holding vertical spear while holding drooping olive branch in left (clearer on the coin, PRC wonders if it is thunderbolt), with eagle with half-spread wings on perch to the right.</p><p>First published by me in SAN XII.4, page 67, Winter 1981-2. This coin later mentioned by Howgego in <i>A Survey of Numismatic Research 1978-1984</i>. Then RPC III 4461.3 this coin illustrated on-line and in the book, plate 205.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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