Hello! I recently got a great batch of coins that took over 2 months to arrive from Portugal. Among them is this, which was sold identified as an "Ancient Roman As Imperial Eagle." It was like $12, and I really liked the design. In-hand it seems to have a reasonable amount of silver in the alloy. The images seem to match the description of a tetradrachm, especially since it is: a) billon, b) has that eagle, c) has Greek letters. But many of the imperial tets tend to have an emperor's bust, not what appears to be Apollo. I could also be completely wrong and it features a female empress instead. I scrolled through the entire Wildwinds page on Alexandria, but couldn't find a match Obv: --IOC-IE--. Draped androgynous bust right Rev: (assorted Greek letters...), Eagle Diam: 22mm Weight: 8.5g
Huh. I was completely off, but in this case I suppose I don’t mind that it’s cited as “extremely rare!” neat!
