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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 6258050, member: 74834&quot;]Roman Provincial coins come large and small. Two coins came in today, a large from Tarsus and a small from Alexandria. The Tarsus coin is one of my largest with 37 mm, but the Alexandria chalkous without any doubt is the smallest. And it&#039;s not so easy for me to make a picture of either. But here they are together - on a napkin. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247717[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The large is clear enough: Gordian III of Tarsus. But the Alexandria coin, can you help me? The diameter is only 8 mm, weight 0.61 gr. Is this a chalkous, a 1 copperpiece coin? And whose head is on it?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247718[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse is relatively clear. You see three corn ears bound together with the regnal year L IΔ = 14. </p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse shows a bearded emperor, so: Hadrian, Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius were the only ones with long enough reigns. Hadrian looks different somehow. Searching on various websites, I didn&#039;t find anything really like it. Nothing in Emmett either, one of the few Alexandria catalogues I have. </p><p><br /></p><p>Probably I should be searching more systematically. But I don&#039;t know how. Can you help?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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