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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 4876194, member: 87404&quot;]A couple weeks ago I picked up a couple of Alexandrian tets that had seen better days (environmentally speaking, for the past two millennia), yet felt promising to be cleaned (can you guess the seller from the before pics?). </p><p><br /></p><p>The first is a Philip, an emperor I didn&#039;t have in this provincial denomination...</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="2">BEFORE:</font></b></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/screenshot_20200902-144649_ebay.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2"><b>AFTER:</b></font></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/incollage_20200920_185328126.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b><font size="3">Philip I, Ruled 244-249 AD</font></b></p><p><b><font size="3">BL Tetradrachm, Egypt, Alexandria</font></b></p><p><b><font size="3">Dated RY 2, Struck 244-245 AD</font></b></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: A K M IOV ΦIΛIΠΠOC ЄV CЄB, laureate and cuirassed bust right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: Tyche standing left, holding cornucopia and rudder, LB (date) in upper left field.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: Emmett 3513</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 21.5mm, 11.9g</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Number two is also a tet with a little bit more historical interest attached—Aurelian with Vaballathus...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2"><b>BEFORE: </b></font></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/screenshot_20200908-185825_ebay.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="2">AFTER: </font></b></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/incollage_20200920_185108370.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b><font size="3">Aurelian, with Vaballathus, AD 270-275</font></b></p><p><b><font size="3">AE Tetradrachm, Egypt, Alexandria</font></b></p><p><font size="3"><b>Dated RY 1 of Aurelian and RY 4 of Vaballathus, Struck 270/271 AD</b></font></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: AVT K Λ Δ AVPHΛIANOC CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Aurelian right, date L-A in fields, RY 1.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: IACO VABAΛΛAΘOC AΘHNO VA C P, laureate, diademed, and draped bust of Vaballathus right, wearing paludamentum and cuirass; L-Δ across field, RY 4.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: Emmett 3914</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 20mm, 8.1g</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Another coin that I did a little &quot;touching up&quot; on from a different seller was listed very incorrectly—a Maiorina of Gratian—but I could easily tell that it was a sestertius of Trebonianus Gallus...</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="2">BEFORE: </font></b></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/incollage_20200908_112439941.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="2"><b>AFTER: </b></font></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/incollage_20200920_192056855.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b><font size="3">Trebonianus Gallus, Ruled 251-253 AD</font></b></p><p><b><font size="3">AE Sestertius, Struck 251-253 AD, Rome</font></b></p><p><font size="3">Obverse: IMP CAES C VIBIVS TREBONIANVS GALLVS AVG, laureate bust draped, cuirassed, right.</font></p><p><font size="3">Reverse: PIETAS AVGG, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, raising both hands; to left, altar; S-C in fields.</font></p><p><font size="3">References: RIC IV 117</font></p><p><font size="3">Size: 32mm, 20.0g</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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