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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3151059, member: 84744&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now THAT is a coin.&nbsp; Just wow.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it looks like there is a story behind your acquisition of it.&nbsp; Opening bid 1295 euros, winning bid 1296 euros?&nbsp; What&#039;s up with that?!&nbsp; Jeez, I would have bid <i>at least</i> 1297. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is much discussion surrounding these.&nbsp; Schwartz dates the revolt to 295/6 in part because he thinks the production of the traditional Alexandrian coinage continued on from the last common issues of the tetrarchs, dated 295/6 (the year ended in August).&nbsp; If the revolt is 296/7, as most now believe, Domitianus needed to have <i>restarted</i> the tetradrachms after a hiatus.&nbsp; It now seems this is the case.&nbsp; It also makes sense of the very few tets (I think maybe 2?) from 296/7 featuring the tetrarchs.&nbsp; Domitianus renewed the Alexandrian tet production only <i>after </i>hostilities had begun, and so the tetrarchs&#039; images are barely featured on them.&nbsp; The folles with the tetrarchs&#039; images came earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>So very cool that he produced octodrachms![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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