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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24881334, member: 26430&quot;]It&#039;s a great coin, but that one you linked (Antoninus Pius Drachm from Egypt, Alexandria) is different in several important ways. (Impossible for your coin to be from Egypt, Alexandria for a few reasons.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The linked coin shows a person seated (Sarapis) inside the temple. Yours shows a Baetylus (a big rock). (If the temple contains an object/person, it&#039;s always important, since it defines which temple or kind of temple.) Egypt, Alexandria has many coins with different temples. But none have a Baetyl like yours</p><p><br /></p><p>To find your type you&#039;ll need to match it to one showing a <b>Baetyl </b><i>[EDIT: Apparently not! See type w/ Mt. Argaeus linked in next comment] </i>and Temple (they come from mints in Asia, such as in Syria or Mesopotamia): <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Baetyl+temple+&amp;thesaurus=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Baetyl+temple+&amp;thesaurus=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Baetyl+temple+&amp;thesaurus=1</a></p><p>[<i>EDIT: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Septimi+arg+temple+&amp;thesaurus=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Septimi+arg+temple+&amp;thesaurus=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Septimi+arg+temple+&amp;thesaurus=1</a></i>]</p><p><br /></p><p>For coins of Egypt, Alexandria, the reverse legend is usually just the date (L + Greek numerals). Occasionally, like on the coin you linked, the date is spelled out (L + ΔωΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ for Twelve, as in Dodeka). But yours is different -- it&#039;s a (partial) city name, but I can&#039;t read enough to be sure which.</p><p><br /></p><p>For Provincials it&#039;s hard to recognize portraits without legend, but I don&#039;t think it&#039;s Antoninus Pius. My hunch is Septimius Severus (for whom there are plenty of coins with Baetyl in temple), but others are conceivable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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