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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2242710, member: 19463&quot;]All I can add is that it has not been all that long since the hobby recognized that Pertinax struck denarii at Alexandria.&nbsp; 25 years ago we started seeing these two types and some were being rejected as barbarous or unofficial.&nbsp; Most just passed as Roman.&nbsp; I became aware of them through my correspondence with the late Roger Bickford-Smith and bought my first (the Providentia below) from CNG sale 35 in 1995 where it was listed without mention of the mint ID.&nbsp; It was sandwiched between two Rome mint denarii in the listings.&nbsp; More recently, almost all worthwhile dealers have learned to recognize the style but it turns out that there are more Alexandria coins of the types than there are Rome mint ones so we were not making a coup buying the sleeper.&nbsp;&nbsp; Many in all grades have come on the market since the &#039;opening&#039; of Eastern Europe that made coins that paid the troops in the wars of 193-196 possible to collect.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are now many fakes.&nbsp; Be very careful especially with the DIVO PERT PIVS PATER coins as fakes outnumber real 100:1.&nbsp; Mikey&#039;s looks good to me.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]442555[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]442556[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I may be completely wrong but I suspect there are as nearly as many Alexandria Pertinax coins as there are Alexandria Septimius.&nbsp; I also believe that many of them may have been struck after his death (perhaps while the city was wavering on who to support in the war???).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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