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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3999451, member: 19463"]My webpage on fabric dates back to when we needed small photos for the many people using dial up modems. I never fixed the page. </p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fabapalex.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">A bronze drachm of Antoninus Pius was issued from the mint of Alexandria, Egypt, in 153-154 AD. It shows the typical fabric of Alexandrian bronze coins. Flans were cast by pouring puddles of metal into shallow cups in an open top mold (probably carved in stone). The extreme slope to the sides of the cups allowed easy removal of the cooled blanks from the reusable mold. The resulting coin is considerable more broad on the reverse than on the obverse. The lack of metal around the obverse edge of these flans rarely allowed proper transfer of the entire obverse legend. Few Alexandrian bronze designs had reverse legends beyond the date (here LI-Z=year 17).</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3999451, member: 19463"]My webpage on fabric dates back to when we needed small photos for the many people using dial up modems. I never fixed the page. [IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fabapalex.jpg[/IMG] [COLOR=#0000ff]A bronze drachm of Antoninus Pius was issued from the mint of Alexandria, Egypt, in 153-154 AD. It shows the typical fabric of Alexandrian bronze coins. Flans were cast by pouring puddles of metal into shallow cups in an open top mold (probably carved in stone). The extreme slope to the sides of the cups allowed easy removal of the cooled blanks from the reusable mold. The resulting coin is considerable more broad on the reverse than on the obverse. The lack of metal around the obverse edge of these flans rarely allowed proper transfer of the entire obverse legend. Few Alexandrian bronze designs had reverse legends beyond the date (here LI-Z=year 17).[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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