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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7891548, member: 19463&quot;]17.&nbsp; While my main interest is the denarius series issued from the Alexandria, I am also attracted to the Provincials also issued from that mint in the name of Septimius Severus.&nbsp; The tetradrachms have been known for a long time (mostly from the work of Dattari) but it was only about 100 years ago that a strange looking group of denarii were recognized as being from this mint also.&nbsp; This discovery is based on the matching style of the two coin series.&nbsp; Over the last several years I have shown some of the Alexandria mint denarii (my postings for days 3 and 4 above in this thread) my postings for the tetradrachms has concentrated on my examples of the early period during the time the mint was making both Imperial denarii and Provincial tetradrachms.&nbsp; Today&#039;s offering from me is from early in the period after the making of denarii had ceased.&nbsp; Relatively few tetradrachms of Septimius have survived from this period.&nbsp; Few enough were made that we find examples of die links showing one obverse die used over more than one year.&nbsp; I wish I could show an example of this but I do not own the coins.&nbsp; Starting in year five most types are rated R5 in Emmett.&nbsp; The Serapis below is known from only years 5 and 6.&nbsp; Both are R5 (one or two published specimens).&nbsp; How many exist is only a guess.&nbsp; The portrait style is a hold over from the previous years.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1361699[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My latest issue for Septimius is an eagle from year 9.&nbsp; Coins from the next decade are all very rare.&nbsp; The portraits are a bit different from the earlier suggesting, to me, a different &#039;hand&#039;.&nbsp; Emmett list none from several of those years.&nbsp; I feel lucky to have the ones I have.&nbsp; These later coins changed the obverse legend to a long series of abbreviations and coins with fully legible legends are very rare.&nbsp; My coins are average.&nbsp; I would love to have one from any later year. The late period legend reads:</p><p>Α<font face="Arial">V</font>Τ Κ Λ CΕΠ CΕVΗ ΕVCΕ ΠΕΡΤ CΕΒ ΑΡΑ ΑΔΙ</p><p>Imperator (Autocrator) Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus (Sebastos) defeater of the Arabs and Adiabene</p><p>While these conquests are mentioned on some Rome mint coins, they stop in the later years.&nbsp; I suspect that the few tetradrachms made after mine utilized left over dies from this middle period.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1361739[/ATTACH] </p><p>I am left with the question why there are so few coins from this decade rather than simply none at all.&nbsp; I doubt that will be soon answered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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