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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 7847287, member: 75143&quot;]For most of my collecting career I&#039;ve been focused on large, bronze Roman provincials. I never really considered the Alexandrian tetradrachms seriously before. The few I saw tended to be rather small, uninspired, and sort of generic.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350888[/ATTACH] </p><p>Carinus.</p><p><br /></p><p>I purchased a few of those generic tetrarchy ones, and realized that they have an interesting character all of their own, and often come with beautiful colors.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350879[/ATTACH]Diocletian.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I then recently happened upon a nice batch of very interesting, pre-tetrarchy tets. These were much larger, more artistic, and often had rather fine style engraving, sometimes better in quality than comparable imperial issues!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350897[/ATTACH] </p><p>Gallienus.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some of them are about the cheapest way to get some rather rare characters such as Vabalathus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350884[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Aurelian and Vabalathus</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And some have some rather uniquely Egpytian motifs, such as mummies and canopic jars.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350885[/ATTACH] Hadrian.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And some are just really pretty in general.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350891[/ATTACH] </p><p>Salonina.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your story on how you found a new collecting interest![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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