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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 4003031, member: 56859"]I'm not a believer in those coins. The idea that Achilleus and Domitius Domitianus could be the same person? Hmmm, interesting. Google Translate is very imperfect, but here's the translation of the auction listing cited in the OP (for the what appears to be tooled Maximianus coin):</p><p><br /></p><p>ACHILLES. 297-298, "Egypt, Alexandria." Billontetradrachmon. Fashioned from a tetrarchic coin. A K _E_I_ AXI__EOC CEB Laurel Head r. Rs: L _ Alexandria with wall crown stands r. with serapis bust and scepter. 5.98g, nice brown tint. RRRR ssEx Collection A.W. before 2013. For a coin by Maximianus Herculius with a very similar portrait and the same reverse. cf. SNG Delepierre 3129. Coins of the usurper Achilles from Alexandria were first described in 1579 by H. Goltzius. Until then, he was only known as one of the leaders of the Egyptian uprising by sources like Eutrop or Aurelius Victor. It was suspected that he claimed imperial dignity after or simultaneously with Domitius Domitianus, or that both might be the same person. J.H. Eckhel suspected in the fourth volume of his Doctrina in 1794 that the coins of Achilles were re-cut tetrarchic coins, but conceded that he had never seen one. In 1902, however, G. Dattari defended the authenticity of these coins. Ultimate clarity was brought about by a papyrus that Achilles called as high official of Domitius Domitianus with his gentile name: Aurelius Achilleus. Thus, the coins with the names L. Epidius or Lepidus Achilleus could not be antique. It is not clear why reworked tetrarchic coins already existed in the 16th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 4003031, member: 56859"]I'm not a believer in those coins. The idea that Achilleus and Domitius Domitianus could be the same person? Hmmm, interesting. Google Translate is very imperfect, but here's the translation of the auction listing cited in the OP (for the what appears to be tooled Maximianus coin): ACHILLES. 297-298, "Egypt, Alexandria." Billontetradrachmon. Fashioned from a tetrarchic coin. A K _E_I_ AXI__EOC CEB Laurel Head r. Rs: L _ Alexandria with wall crown stands r. with serapis bust and scepter. 5.98g, nice brown tint. RRRR ssEx Collection A.W. before 2013. For a coin by Maximianus Herculius with a very similar portrait and the same reverse. cf. SNG Delepierre 3129. Coins of the usurper Achilles from Alexandria were first described in 1579 by H. Goltzius. Until then, he was only known as one of the leaders of the Egyptian uprising by sources like Eutrop or Aurelius Victor. It was suspected that he claimed imperial dignity after or simultaneously with Domitius Domitianus, or that both might be the same person. J.H. Eckhel suspected in the fourth volume of his Doctrina in 1794 that the coins of Achilles were re-cut tetrarchic coins, but conceded that he had never seen one. In 1902, however, G. Dattari defended the authenticity of these coins. Ultimate clarity was brought about by a papyrus that Achilles called as high official of Domitius Domitianus with his gentile name: Aurelius Achilleus. Thus, the coins with the names L. Epidius or Lepidus Achilleus could not be antique. It is not clear why reworked tetrarchic coins already existed in the 16th century.[/QUOTE]
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