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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Egry, post: 6680801, member: 113686&quot;]On the way back from a meeting today I drove past a little coin/gold pawn shop that I have bought some coins from about 5 or 6 years ago. I walked in and it noticed it now has a new owner, and was selling mostly modern mint coins with a side of other collectible like comics and Hot Wheels.</p><p><br /></p><p>I took a long shot and asked if he had any ancients. The guy pulled out small roman collection that he said was from a very old dealer. By the yellow colour of the pages I could tell it dated back quite a few years, and as most collections that predated the metal detector most of the 20 or 30 coins were in very poor condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, one coin caught my eye, it looked like an Alexandrian tetradrachm of Nero, but as my knowledge on provincial coins are not the best so I couldn&#039;t say for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>I offered the dealer the equivalent of about $20 US and the coin was mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>As soon as I got into my car I Googled &quot;Nero Alexandria AYTO&quot; and to my pleasant surprise this Thread popped up, and it had a lot of familiar names!</p><p><br /></p><p>Well here are some of my typical poor quality iPhone photos that do not do the coin justice (it is a lot better in hand).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1269758[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1269759[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Nero (54-68). Egypt, Alexandria. BI Tetradrachm , year 10 (AD 63/4). Radiate head r. R/ Draped bust of Serapis r., wearing taenia and calathus. RPC I 5274; Dattari (Savio) 251–2; Emmett 133.</p><p><br /></p><p>The above is my very dodgy attribution copied from VC coins as my library is not fully developed and the only book that I assumed would have any likelihood of identifying (Greek Imperial Coins - David.R.Sear) doesn&#039;t reference it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not a coin that I would normally seek but what fun it was to find it and search for it. It had the right eye appeal, and I feel like I bought it at a fair price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any help on the attribution would be greatly appreciated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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