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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4855577, member: 110350&quot;]I wrote up descriptions of my two wins for my personal catalog, and attempted my own photos of them.&nbsp; I would never dream of claiming that any photo I take is better than Frank&#039;s or anyone else&#039;s -- after all, I take them all with my LG Android cellphone camera -- but at least they&#039;re at a higher resolution than Frank&#039;s and capable of being enlarged without becoming unacceptably blurred!</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; Julian II, AE Double Maiorina, 361-363 AD, Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia] Mint, 2nd Officina.&nbsp; Obv. Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, FL CL IVLI-ANVS PF AVG / Bull standing right, two stars above, SECVRITAS REIPVB; in exergue: mintmark star-BSIRM-palm branch. RIC VIII Sirmium 107B (p. 392), Sear RCV V 19152 (ill.), Cohen 38. 28 mm., 8.48 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1172484[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1172486[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>After receiving this coin, I believe even more that it&#039;s one of the better Julian II obverses on this type of coin that I&#039;ve ever seen.&nbsp; And the reverse isn&#039;t bad either!</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Nero, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (65/66 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Radiate bust of Nero with aegis, right, ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ / Rev. Bust of Alexandria, right, wearing elephant headdress, AYTO-KPA around, LIB [Year 12] in right field.&nbsp; RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. I 5289 (1992); RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5289" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5289" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5289</a>; Emmett 109.12 [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 238 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprints with supplement by Colin M. Kraay)]. 20x23 mm., 12.11 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1172496[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1172499[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The downside of this coin -- which I already knew from Frank&#039;s pictures -- is that most of the legend is off the flan, especially on the reverse. What I like is that the portraits are nice on both sides, and that the coin is much more silvery in color than the three other Alexandria tetradrachms I have (all from Hadrian). I don&#039;t know if 60 years made that much difference in the silver content of these coins, or if it just depends on the particular examples one has.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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