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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7780198, member: 87809&quot;]Great write-up and very nice tetradrachm [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER]! Well done.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got one recently, not as nice as yours or the others posted in this thread; mine is just a very common Diobol<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and way lower than the $400-500 range</p><p><br /></p><p>On the reverse the letter L was also a symbol for &quot;year&quot; and ΕΝ∆ΕΚΑΤΟΥ = 11</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ24 Diobol, </p><p>Alexandria, Egypt, year 11 = 126 - 127 AD</p><p>23 x 24 mm, 8.051 g</p><p>RPC III, 5677; Emmett 803.5 var; Geissen 950-951; Vogt (1924) 50; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ΣΕΒ, Laureate bust of Hadrian to right, drapery on l. shoulder</p><p>Rev.: L ENΔ EKATOY (Year 11) Erect Serpent Agathodaimon crowned with shkent, holding caduceus (kerykeion) with his tail and stalk of corn</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1334734[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1334735[/ATTACH]</p><p>The coins of Alexandria differ strongly from the coins for the other part of Egypt, the so-called Nome coins, even though they all were struck in Alexandria. Whereas the Nome coins show the many different gods and snake-deities of Egypt, the coins of Alexandria are always Greek.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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