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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3717235, member: 85693"]Well darn.  I was hoping for an octodrachm!  Thank you all for your input - I do appreciate it, even when the news is bad. All four of the "Egyptian" coins came from a dealer's junk box.  Maybe all of them are "old" tourist fakes?  Here is the lot as I found them with closeups of the other three (plus a Gallienus).  They all were noted on the flips as having come from Egypt in 1972.  They could well be tourist fakes, though they all three had some very convincing crud (of the three, I am pretty sure the Salonina is genuinely ancient): [ATTACH=full]996414[/ATTACH] Hadrian hemidrachm with Isis Pharia - this looks like Dattari 1753 (per some auctions I found).  However, it is light at 7.78 grams.  I've never handled a Roman-Egyptian hemidrachm, so I have nothing to compare it with, but I think it's thin:[ATTACH=full]996415[/ATTACH] Hadrian tetradrachm with Selene bust - Dattari 1482.  Again, a bit light at 9.5 grams. [ATTACH=full]996416[/ATTACH] Salonina tetradrachm with Eirene.  Dattari 5331.  Weighs 7.7 grams.  I think this one might be good, if damaged. [ATTACH=full]996417[/ATTACH] Those were all $2 each.  I (over)paid $10 for this Gallienus antoninianus with VICTORIA AET reverse.  The portrait is nice and I think it is the only Gallienus I have with (a little) silvering left. [ATTACH=full]996418[/ATTACH] Again, thanks everybody for helping out with the Veiled Mystery.  I appreciate it.[/QUOTE]