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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4605111, member: 84744&quot;]I wasn&#039;t much into Alexandrian tets before CoinTalk, but now I love them.&nbsp; Here are a few of my favourites:</p><p><br /></p><p>Severus Alexander as he grew up:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140704[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140706[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140705[/ATTACH] </p><p>(^maybe this one doesn&#039;t count, as it was minted in Rome... ex dougsmit)</p><p><br /></p><p>Tranquillina:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140707[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius II:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140708[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Aurelian:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140709[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Maximianus (final year of Alexandrian tets... a neglected highlight IMO!)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140710[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s my newest one, which was tucked away in a group lot:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1140712[/ATTACH] </p><p>It&#039;s a Diocletian year 10 featuring Harpokrates (R5 in Emmett, #4053).&nbsp; The Greeks mistakenly took Harpokrates to be the god of silence and secrecy; really the hand-to-mouth gesture enacts the hieroglyph for child, referring to Horus as a child.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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