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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3142973, member: 74834&quot;]By the way, about the 12 nummi coins that are ascribed to the Persian occupation of Alexandria, I just saw this interesting article <a href="https://www.academia.edu/36489087/Lidia_Domaszewicz_and_Michael_L._Bates._The_Copper_Coinage_of_Egypt_in_the_Seventh_Century_in_Fustat_Finds_Beads_Coins_Medical_Instruments_Textiles_and_Other_Artifacts_from_the_Awad_Collection_ed._Jere_L._Bacharach_Cairo_American_University_in_Cairo_Press_2002_pp._88-111" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/36489087/Lidia_Domaszewicz_and_Michael_L._Bates._The_Copper_Coinage_of_Egypt_in_the_Seventh_Century_in_Fustat_Finds_Beads_Coins_Medical_Instruments_Textiles_and_Other_Artifacts_from_the_Awad_Collection_ed._Jere_L._Bacharach_Cairo_American_University_in_Cairo_Press_2002_pp._88-111" rel="nofollow">&#039;Copper Coinage of Egypt in the Seventh Century&#039;</a> by Lidia Domaszewicz and Michael L. Bates. Full details: &#039;The Copper Coinage of Egypt in the Seventh Century,&#039; in <i>Fustat Finds. Beads, Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles, and Other Artifacts from the Awad Collection</i> (ed. Jere L. Bacharach. Cairo, American University in Cairo Press, 2002), pp. 88-111.</p><p>It is on Academia.edu and might be behind a paywall. </p><p><br /></p><p>To cut things very short, Bates and Domaszewicz on p.100-102 of their article, fire some persuasive shots at the interpretation of the 12 nummi - frontal head with star and crescent - as Persian. They say it might be coinage possibly issued by Anastasius (491-518), a century earlier. I can&#039;t judge this and I don&#039;t know if this issue has been commented since. Published hoards or other archeological evidence may contain answers that I don&#039;t know of. But I think it might interest you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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