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<p>[QUOTE="FitzNigel, post: 4604840, member: 74712"]This is not an area I focus on in collecting, although I have been enamored with the issues just before diocletian’s reforms (not to mention @TIF’a gorgeous collection of coins from Alexandria). I bought this one on a whim from a JAZ auction:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140579[/ATTACH] </p><p>Provincial Rome - Egypt</p><p>Nero, r. 54-68 A.D. (64-5 A.D.)</p><p>Alexandria mint, BL Tetradrachm, 24.23 mm x 11.8 grams</p><p>Obv.: NEPΩ KΛAY ΚΑΙΣ ΣEB ΓEP. Radiate bust right, wearing aegis</p><p>Rev.: AYTOKPA. Eagle standing left, palm frond behind, L IA to left</p><p>Ref.: SRCV 2003</p><p>Ex. Doug Smith Collection</p><p><br /></p><p>and it’s not a bad provenance either <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. As I have lately been reading more about Roman coins, it has occurred to me the special place that Alexandrian coins hold in the Empire, and that perhaps I ought to rethink labeling them as ‘Provincial,’ and leaving them in their own category.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="FitzNigel, post: 4604840, member: 74712"]This is not an area I focus on in collecting, although I have been enamored with the issues just before diocletian’s reforms (not to mention @TIF’a gorgeous collection of coins from Alexandria). I bought this one on a whim from a JAZ auction: [ATTACH=full]1140579[/ATTACH] Provincial Rome - Egypt Nero, r. 54-68 A.D. (64-5 A.D.) Alexandria mint, BL Tetradrachm, 24.23 mm x 11.8 grams Obv.: NEPΩ KΛAY ΚΑΙΣ ΣEB ΓEP. Radiate bust right, wearing aegis Rev.: AYTOKPA. Eagle standing left, palm frond behind, L IA to left Ref.: SRCV 2003 Ex. Doug Smith Collection and it’s not a bad provenance either ;). As I have lately been reading more about Roman coins, it has occurred to me the special place that Alexandrian coins hold in the Empire, and that perhaps I ought to rethink labeling them as ‘Provincial,’ and leaving them in their own category.[/QUOTE]
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