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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1464019, member: 26302&quot;]As a quick background, so you know why these had a distinctive look, Egypt had a separate monetary system. It was forbidden to use regular coinage there. The reason for this goes back to Octavian and Cleopatra. When Octavian won, he decreed that Egypt was his personal property, not property of Rome. This is how he financed himself, as did subsequent emperors. The emperors were much more willing to debase for profit coins from Egypt since the Romans would not see it, so they did. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is how tets in Egypt very quickly got debased, and ended up purely copper coins, but still being called tets. It also explains why they are distinctive. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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