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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 7933636, member: 57495&quot;]Though some auction houses and dealers continue to describe the Alexandrian DEO SARAPIDI coins as such, they are quite distinct from the Festival of Isis issues that were struck at Rome.&nbsp; The linked Tesorillo page highlights some of the key aspects of the Festival of Isis series, in particular the VOTA PVBLICA legend on the reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a separate page on Tesorillo that categorizes the DEO SARAPIDI series as part of the last civic coinages that were struck at Nicomedia, Antioch and Alexandria during Maximinus II&#039;s reign: <a href="https://www.tesorillo.com/isis/civ/index1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tesorillo.com/isis/civ/index1.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.tesorillo.com/isis/civ/index1.htm</a>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="https://www.academia.edu/2073684/The_last_civic_coinages_and_the_religious_policy_of_Maximinus_Daza_A.D._312_Numismatic_Chronicle_London_153_1993_p._65-76" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/2073684/The_last_civic_coinages_and_the_religious_policy_of_Maximinus_Daza_A.D._312_Numismatic_Chronicle_London_153_1993_p._65-76" rel="nofollow">Van Heesh paper</a> that discusses these civic coins also has in its opening paragraph some info relevant to this thread about the last provincial coins:</p><p>&quot;<i>In the reign of Gallienus (253-68) only ten city mints were still active; the last city to strike its own coins was Perga in Asia in AD 275.&nbsp; The last provincial series was that of Egypt, which ended in the reign of Diocletian during the usurpation of Domitius Domitianus in AD 297/8.</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the Perga issue is the one struck under Tacitus that was mentioned by [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER] abit upthread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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