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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3150862, member: 56859&quot;]I&#039;m looking forward to carefully reading this paper but at a very brief skim I have a some questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first part of the paper touts a newly discovered bronze coin of Augustus which is sestertius-sized and attributed to Alexandria.</p><p><br /></p><p>What evidence does the author have that the Augustus &quot;discovery coin&quot; was indeed struck in Alexandria?&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t particularly resemble any other coins of that time, or of any other time, in Roman Egypt&#039;s coinage history.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps he convincingly explains the attribution somewhere in the paper.&nbsp; I will be on the lookout for such an explanation when I read the paper this weekend.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the coin. AE 35mm, 34.30g;&nbsp; ΣΕΒΑ-ΣΤΟΣ; bare head of Augustus right / ΚΑΙ-ΣAP in two lines within laurel wreath.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]807190[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s something else that is baffling.&nbsp; There is a footnote on the title of the paper.&nbsp; The footnote is:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Did I miss something?&nbsp; What does Silvia Hurter have to do with the title, or anything about this essay?&nbsp; Hopefully this too will be clear once I&#039;ve carefully read the paper, but it seems very odd.&nbsp; Was he trying to thank her and forgot to actually thank her?&nbsp; Was this paper published in another language and poorly translated, leading to this weird or maybe incomplete comment?</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>The idea that drachms of Roman Egypt were influenced by the Imperial sestertius seems likely-- perhaps obvious-- and I&#039;m interested to see what evidence he has that the discovery coin is from Alexandria and why it serves to further his theory.&nbsp; Does the addition of this discovery coin enhance the theory in any way?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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