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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 25582869, member: 91820&quot;]Yes Alexandria for reasons unknown was mentioned in my article as being excepted from the centralization of the coinage.&nbsp; That highlights, perhaps, Alexandria&#039;s distinction as the second city of the empire, and also a city that was not within the power of the Senate - although by this time the Senate was pretty much powerless - despite its appointment of Tacitus.&nbsp; It could be as suggested that Alexandria remained loyal and did not join with Palmyra and was allowed to continue to strike its own coins - or for some other reason or reasons altogether.&nbsp; I simply do not know enough about this period.&nbsp; However, the coin above remains among the last in a centuries old brilliant artistic tradition among the cities of the empire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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