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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 7989545, member: 110226&quot;]It&#039;s like other areas of collecting.&nbsp; Some coins are readily available, while others are scarce to very rare. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Alexandrian tetradrachms tend toward being comprised of billon from around Claudius forward, with progressive debasement.&nbsp; Strikes can be crude and the metal brittle and rough.&nbsp; Also the flans seem to shrink in diameter.&nbsp; If you are trying to assemble a type collection of Alexandrian tetradrachms by emperor, again, the scarcity or rarity depends on the emperor.&nbsp; You should be able to purchase a decent Nero tetradrachm with relative ease, while an Otho or Galba coin would be more expensive. I don&#039;t specialize in this type of coinage, but there are reverse designs for certain emperors that command premium prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the eastern tetradrachms, that&#039;s more complex, since there are many mints that produced these coins, many very rare.&nbsp; Antioch seems to be generally the most available.&nbsp; Again, if you are focusing on the emperors, you might look at coins from this mint first, perhaps Tyre as well.&nbsp; As with Alexandria, the coins generally became more debased moving from the first century AD into the second and beyond.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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