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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4904205, member: 110350&quot;]For a while now, it seems that all my new coins are either from the Roman Republic, or are Alexandrian tetradrachms from Roman Egypt.&nbsp; (No new Imperials, perhaps because continuing to check off the Late Roman emperors I don&#039;t have doesn&#039;t interest me that much, and the handful of earlier ones I&#039;d like to have are too expensive for me.) I guess I have very different standards for Republican coins as opposed to coins from Alexandria. As to the former, I&#039;m a little bit of a condition snob: even though I can&#039;t really afford &quot;the best,&quot; I want both sides to be in good condition with legends pretty much intact.&nbsp; Not so for the latter: I don&#039;t care much about the condition of the obverses, and am interested primarily in reverse types I don&#039;t already have, regardless of which emperor issued them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like this one, which I bought recently because I liked the reverse -- the crocodile is nice, and one can actually see Nilus&#039;s foot! -- and didn&#039;t already have that type. The fact that the obverse is poor didn&#039;t bother me much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 22 (137/138 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Laureate bust right, ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΤΡΑΙΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Nilus reclining left on rocks, holding reed in right hand and cornucopiae in left; crocodile below; L KB (Year 22) in left field. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 6254 (2015); RPC III Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6254" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6254" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/6254</a> ; Emmett 876.22* [Emmett, Keith, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i> (Lodi, WI, 2001)]; Milne 1569 [Milne, J., <i>A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum</i> (Oxford, 1933, reprints with supplement by Colin M. Kraay)]; Köln.1241 [Geissen, A., Katalog alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen, Köln, Band II (Hadrian-Antoninus Pius) (Cologne, 1978, corrected reprint 1987)].&nbsp; 24 mm., 12.9 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183077[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183088[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>* Emmett actually doesn&#039;t list this type for Year 22, for reasons unknown. I have no basis for believing that that year is particularly rare for this type, although I was able to find only two examples on acsearch.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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