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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3388891, member: 56859"]The Alexandrian is going to be tough to call. By the late Provincial period the portraits were generic and the "Nike flying right" type was issued by several of emperors. Your coin's reverse has L Γ across the field so that doesn't narrow it down. You can make out "CEB" at the end of the obverse legend so that emperor was Augustus rather than Caesar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maximian is certainly a strong possibility but so is Diocletian. There is a letter blob at ~9:30 on the reverse which is probably an "o", and an "o" in that approximate position in the legend fits both Diocletian and Maximian. I can't discern any other letters with much certainty. I could be wrong about the "o" blob; other possibilities in that case include Numerian and Aurelian. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's probably Maximian (Emmett 4147, regnal year 3, 287/8 CE / Nike flying right) or Diocletian (Emmett 4064, regnal year 3, 286/7 CE / Nike flying right).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3388891, member: 56859"]The Alexandrian is going to be tough to call. By the late Provincial period the portraits were generic and the "Nike flying right" type was issued by several of emperors. Your coin's reverse has L Γ across the field so that doesn't narrow it down. You can make out "CEB" at the end of the obverse legend so that emperor was Augustus rather than Caesar. Maximian is certainly a strong possibility but so is Diocletian. There is a letter blob at ~9:30 on the reverse which is probably an "o", and an "o" in that approximate position in the legend fits both Diocletian and Maximian. I can't discern any other letters with much certainty. I could be wrong about the "o" blob; other possibilities in that case include Numerian and Aurelian. It's probably Maximian (Emmett 4147, regnal year 3, 287/8 CE / Nike flying right) or Diocletian (Emmett 4064, regnal year 3, 286/7 CE / Nike flying right).[/QUOTE]
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