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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8239644, member: 110350&quot;]A beautiful coin, [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>In my limited experience, Philip I tets from Antioch are the most common; I see new ones up for sale all the time. For whatever reason, Caracalla tets seem to me to be the second most commonly offered, rather than those of Trajan Decius.</p><p><br /></p><p>My one Trajan Decius tetradrachm, which I&#039;ve posted before (the page reference to McAlee is new, because I recently bought a copy and have greatly enjoyed going through it):</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan Decius, billon Tetradrachm, 249-251 AD, Syria, Antioch Mint. Obv. Radiate bust right, three pellets below (•••) (= 3rd Officina), ΑΥΤ Κ Γ ΜƐ ΚΥ ΔƐΚΙΟϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ / Rev. Eagle standing left on palm branch, head left, wings spread, wreath in beak, ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ƐΞΟΥϹΙΑϹ [= Tribunicia Potestas]; in exergue: S C. [Group II, Officina 3.] RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Online IX 1644 (see <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/1644" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/1644" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/1644</a> ); Prieur 540 (11), McAlee 1120c (Group 2) (see p. 368), BMC 586. 24 mm., 12.85 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1450102[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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