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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2648272, member: 19463&quot;]Me, too.&nbsp; I wanted this coin very badly - irrationally so.&nbsp; The Alexandrian calendar marked the new year on August 29 so this year 20 (LK) coin was struck after August 29, 211.&nbsp; The reverse shows Caracalla and Geta shaking hands (that is the only kind of historical fiction I like) but not too many of these were made before Geta&#039;s murder on December 26, 211 made the die obsolete.&nbsp; Really I have no idea how long it took for word to reach Alexandria but the coin could not have been popular with either of the emperors by the time it was struck.&nbsp; This coin was the last use of the first hair style portrait with the other year 20 type for Julia using the second hair style.&nbsp; Rome mint had made the change about three years earlier but Alexandria struck few tetradrachms for her and had continued with this design.&nbsp; I was recently shown a year 19 coin using the same obverse die and am not sure if there ever was another die in use that year.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]585366[/ATTACH] </p><p>I wish I had a late hair Alexandria coin but that one has not come my way. Searching the usual places has turned up three bronzes but no tetradrachms sold this century.&nbsp; They might be rare.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; If anyone sees one, I would like to hear about it.&nbsp; A late hair style AE drachm was sold by CNG in 2010:</p><p><a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=169647" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=169647" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=169647</a></p><p><img src="https://cngcoins.com/photos/big/85000727.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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