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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3829942, member: 85693&quot;]Nice coin.&nbsp; I got my first Alexandrian Roman tetradrachm about 2 years ago.&nbsp; I was not impressed at first, but I have really come to appreciate them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I just got these two recently whilst bottom-feeding on eBay.&nbsp; They were unattributed and I had a heck of a time figuring them out - they may still be wrong.&nbsp; For coins I feel I don&#039;t have right, or had to guess at, I&#039;ve started putting &quot;attribution notes&quot; on the back of the flip - so in the future when I hope I&#039;m smarter I can see why I came to the wrong conclusions I did.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like the portrait and the purplish crud on the top one - the second one is pretty poor, but it has vexilla, which I didn&#039;t know came on these tets. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1018311[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Egypt&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Potin Tetradrachm</b></p><p><b>Maximianus</b></p><p><b>Year 7 (291-292 A.D.)?</b></p><p><b>Alexandria Mint </b></p><p>MAΞIMI−ANOC CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Nike flying right, raising wreath right hand, palm over left shoulder, L [Z]? across fields, star right. </p><p>Milne 5031; Curtis 2101.</p><p>(8.32 grams / 18 mm)</p><p><b>Attribution Note:&nbsp; </b></p><p>The obverse legend is shorter than the ones I&#039;ve seen; but later years seem to have used it for Max.&nbsp; Star in the reverse field also seems to be later.&nbsp; The second letter of the date is mostly off-flan.&nbsp; LZ (7) or LS (10) are possibilities Curtis 2101 or 2102 (I don&#039;t know the difference). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1018310[/ATTACH] </p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Egypt&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Potin Tetradrachm</b></p><p><b>Aurelian </b></p><p><b>Year 4 (272-273 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Alexandria Mint </b></p><p>A K Λ ΔOM AVP[HΛIANOC CEB]?, laureate and cuirassed bust right / eagle standing left, head turned right, between two vexilla; LΔ above.</p><p>Milne 4396; Geissen 3077.</p><p>(8.41 grams / 17 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note:&nbsp; </b></p><p>The obverse legend is difficult to make out and I am not sure it matches the description.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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