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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 3114320, member: 82616&quot;]Quality instead of quantity. That is a superb Alexandrian!</p><p><br /></p><p>Remarkable how that portrait resembles the ones on the tetradrachms. Evidently, the same engravers worked on both the billon and bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]790798[/ATTACH]<b>Vespasian</b></p><p>AR Tetradrachm, 12.72g</p><p>Alexandria mint, 69-70 AD</p><p>RPC 2416 (7 spec.).</p><p>Obv: AYTOK KAIΣ ΣEBA OYEΣΠAΣIANOY; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r., date LB before neck</p><p>Rev: Τ ΦΛΑΥΙ ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΣ; laureate head of Titus, r.</p><p>Ex CNG E377, 29 June 2016, The Hermanubis collection, lot 28.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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