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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 24663741, member: 110226&quot;]A beautiful coin it is!&nbsp; A fine example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexandria had a large Greek population during Roman times and going back to the Ptolemaic kings, probably even earlier, since Egypt was such an essential source of grains to the ancient world of the Mediterranean.&nbsp; It is the Greek factor, I think, that carried on the classical artistic traditions over the centuries in Alexandria.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coinage of Alexandria often had a quality of die engraving that was seldom replicated elsewhere, Antioch possibly an exception.&nbsp; However, as the chaos of the middle-late 3rd to the 4th centuries AD progressed, even the quality of the Alexandria coins suffered, which makes your coin quite exceptional, particularly with the obverse, but the reverse as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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