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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3246976, member: 19463&quot;]I was thrilled to receive the item in the photo below as a gift from my late friend Roger Bickford-Smith over 25 years ago. Roger was not a collector of Alexandrian tetradrachms but we both were very interested in the denarii of that mint so he gave this to me.&nbsp; He had another just like it.&nbsp; The problem is I have misplaced his gift and only now have a photo I took of it soon after receipt.&nbsp; I know it is in a box somewhere but I have not seen it since my last move 16 years ago.&nbsp; This week I found the photo I shot of it shortly after I got it.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a scan of two black and white prints made back then.&nbsp; I hope someday to find the item itself and see if I can improve my photo.&nbsp; I do not have a color photo of it.&nbsp; Can you ID it?&nbsp; I will give the answer shortly if no one gets it but will ask that you not post other than answers to this thread.&nbsp; If you do not want to try to ID it. Go to another thread.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like games, go to another thread.&nbsp; If you think this is unfair, ignore it.&nbsp; If you like to ID things you may not have seen before, enjoy.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]851177[/ATTACH] </p><p>One more thing:&nbsp; Don&#039;t ask if it is real.&nbsp; The photo was taken from a plaster cast of the real coin as was the common practice in many coin books 100 years ago.&nbsp; Roger was very good at making plaster casts including making them from other plaster casts.&nbsp; This is a digital scan copy of a film photo I shot (my lighting) of a three dimensional plaster object made by pressing Roger&#039;s plaster object in clay creating a void into which liquid plaster was poured.&nbsp; How real do you want?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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