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Message:: [QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4377229, member: 99456"][USER=87404]@Justin Lee[/USER], a nice family haul, especially like the paired father and son RY3, and the Valentinian II, the two Cornelia Saloninas, retrograde legend...Nevermind, I like them all.  I think I may have the Alexandrian tetradrachm bug.  I don't have a Valentinian I or II (yet), but I have added a couple of other family members in the last 6 -8 months :[ATTACH=full]1104141[/ATTACH]Gallienus, 253-268, BI Tetradrachm, Egypt, Alexandria, AD 266-267Obv: AVT K ΠΛI K ΓAΛΛIHNOC CεB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust rightRev: Eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak behind, palm before, LIΔ Ref: Dattari 5283[ATTACH=full]1104144[/ATTACH] Roman Provincial, Salonina, wife of Gallienus, Augusta AD 254-268, BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt, dated RY 6 of Valerian I and Gallienus (AD 258/259)Obv: KOPNHΛIA CAΛѠNЄINA CEB, draped bust right, wearing stephane Rev: Eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak; L ς (date) across fields.Ref: Köln 2964; Dattari (Savio) 5321; K&G 91.20; Emmett 3747.6Size: 12.29g, 22.5mm and the most recent one of "<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-the-coin-speaks-for-itself.358531/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-the-coin-speaks-for-itself.358531/">Mr. Decade</a>" which you've seen and will certainly make the top 10 for the year (and has a shot at #1):[ATTACH=full]1104146[/ATTACH]Egypt, Alexandria, Gallienus, 253-268 Tetradrachm circa 262-263 (year 10)Size: 23mm, 10.63gObv: Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust rightRev: ΔЄKA/ЄTHPI/CKV/PIOV in four lines within laurel wreath; below, L IRef: Geissen 2915 (this coin cited) Dattari-Savio Pl. 272, 5273 (this coin) <blockquote>Perhaps due to the continual warfare of the times, much of the ancient world was struck with the plague, probably bubonic, in the early 250's. It may have begun among the Germanic invaders or in the slums of Alexandria where, according to Gibbon's estimate, half the population succumbed. The illness reached pandemic proportions among the troops (killing among others the emperor Hostilian), and returned home with the soldiers. At one point five thousand people per day died in Rome. Agriculture was particularly affected by the continual warfare and illness.- Percival, C.W. (1992), <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=The%20Age%20of%20Gallienus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=The%20Age%20of%20Gallienus" rel="nofollow">The Age of Gallienus</a></blockquote>[/QUOTE]

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