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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2962048, member: 88829&quot;]We had all this chat about the symbol for etous and no examples of the word in use on an Alexandrian tet.&nbsp; But it just so happened that John had one in his weekly auction, and since I had never seen one I couldn&#039;t pass it by.&nbsp; It&#039;s not Nero, but here is a tet with the word &quot;etous&quot; spelled out on the coin instead of the &quot;L&quot; symbol as a marker for the regnal year:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]725153[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>EGYPT, Alexandria. Aurelian, AD 270-275.</p><p>BI Tetradrachm, 20mm, 8.1g, 12h; Dated RY 5 (AD 273/4).</p><p>Obv.: A K Λ ΔOM AVPHΛIANOC CЄB; Laureate and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Rev.: ETOVC Є; Eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak.</p><p>Reference: Emmett 3924, p. 200[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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