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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2742293, member: 44316&quot;]I just posted a new educational website:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/SevAlex/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/SevAlex/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/SevAlex/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Severus Alexander (Roman Emperor, AD 222-235), &quot;Year 5&quot; coins for Alexandria, Egypt&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Year 5 (AD 226/7) is particularly interesting because there are Alexandrian year 5 coins from two different years and two different mints. Read the site to find out how that can be.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]626237[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is the coin which inspired the site.</p><p>&nbsp;The portrait looks like his portraits on imperial coins, not those on Alexandrian coins, and &quot;year 5&quot; is written out as L ΠEMΠTOY.&nbsp; L is again the Egyptian symbol for &quot;year&quot; and ΠEMΠTOY is &quot;fifth&quot;. </p><p>The type is Serapis (an Egyptian god, distinguished by the modius on his head) standing left, raising his right hand, and holding transverse long scepter. The obverse legend is long:</p><p>A KAI M AVP CEOVHR AΛEΞANΔPOC EVCEB</p><p>Imperator Caesar Marcus AURelius SEVERUs ALEXANDERVS Pius</p><p>26-24 mm. 13.55 grams. Emmett 3134</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was struck <b>for</b> Alexandria, but with dies of Roman style and struck <b>in</b> Rome. The site also has &quot;year 5&quot; coins struck in Alexandria and &quot;year 5&quot; coins struck in a different year!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Show us your Alexandrian coins of Severus Alexander.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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