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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 8078628, member: 87200&quot;]Alexandria mint: </p><p><br /></p><p>Transitioning from a pagan to a Christian world. Fun fact: The last emperor whose name was inscribed in hieroglyphs inside the royal cartouche was Trajan Decius at the temple of Esna.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the last emperors whose coins featured the syncretic god Serapis was Maximinus Daia. (I learned above that Licinius and Constantine actually struck the type after Daia&#039;s death.) The Serapeum was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapeum_of_Alexandria#Destruction" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapeum_of_Alexandria#Destruction" rel="nofollow">destroyed by a Christian mob</a> in the year 391.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/maximinus3-jpg.1334968/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/maximinus4-jpg.1334969/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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