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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2130157, member: 42773&quot;]The idea of an Alexandrian cistophorus is interesting, but one would need more examples in the range of 10g to verify the theory. One underweight flan does not a new denomination make. Every series of ancient coins has it&#039;s runts, particularly when it comes to bronze and billon.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is the true that the production of cistophori-weight coins continued into the reign of Hadrian, but the only ones I&#039;ve seen are from the mints of Halicarnassus, Pergamum, Smyrna, and &quot;Unknown Asia.&quot; (See the Yale and MFA Boston collections.) Can anyone produce a <i>bona fide </i>cistophorus of Alexandria?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not saying it isn&#039;t possible. Tridrachms aren&#039;t rare among provincial Levantine series. But Tridrachms and cistophori are all of good silver, not billon. Without more (many more) examples in this weight range, I don&#039;t think we can declare anything but an underweight flan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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