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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2883148, member: 19463&quot;]There are two good questions here.&nbsp; 95% of all Alexandrian coins are 2nd or 3rd century (Trajan through Tetrarchy) and there are more tetradrachms than other denominations.&nbsp; The write up I saw said Nero through Philip suggesting the collection slid forward half a century on both ends but the real question is how all came to have the same gray-brown surfaces making them look like a hoard rather than a collection. </p><p>&nbsp; What is online: <a href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n27a11.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n27a11.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n27a11.html</a></p><p>Alexandrian tets always look a bit odd gathered together since some are silvery billon and some are darkly toned depending on how and when they were cleaned and toned. </p><p>I imagine there are some fully natural surfaces in the corpus but I don&#039;t know what color that is.&nbsp; Are we to believe that the Hermanubis collector only accumulated coins of one color and refused to buy any that were too light or slightly encrusted?&nbsp; There are many nice coins in the bunch but it is strange to see so many spotlessly clean coins in one color called a &#039;collection&#039;.&nbsp; Are none listed as having come from a previous sale (e.g. Dattari)?&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago I bought a Alexandrian coin (certainly below Hermanubis quality) that had been harshly cleaned since its previous sale that turned out to be ex Dattari.&nbsp; Perhaps there is something about these coins that makes people want scrub them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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