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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3123647, member: 87200&quot;]Nice coin [USER=31685]@Lawtoad[/USER] ! And Welcome to the forum! Here&#039;s a billon tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt struck under Diocletian. As some people know, Roman coins were not used in Egypt, only the local issue. However, after the reforms introducing the follis there was a policy change where folles were struck in Alexandria, replacing the venerable tetradrachm which had been issued since the time of Ptolemy I. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795428[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795429[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also find this period in history interesting as Diocletian issued his famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices" rel="nofollow">Edict on Maximum Wages and Prices</a> designed to stop inflation by threatening merchants and others with capital punishment if they exceeded the suggested prices. Here is a fragment of the original edict:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]795432[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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