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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 1076329, member: 19409&quot;]The one on the left is an Alexandrian tetradrachm of Aurelian and Vabalathus.&nbsp; This was during a period where much of the eastern Roman Empire broke away and bacame the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyrene_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyrene_Empire" rel="nofollow">Palmyrene Empire</a>.&nbsp; Aurelian briefly tolerated it when he came into power, since he was already involved with fighting the breakaway Gallic Empire in the west, and during this period, coins with both Vabalathus, the king of the Palmyrene empire, and Aurelian were issued.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one on the right is another Alexandrian tetradrachm, this time of Valerian I.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the year would be on that messed up part to the right of the eagle, so it&#039;s going to be difficult to get a specific attribution unless you can figure out what used to be there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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