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Nero AR Tetradrachm of Antioch, Syria. RPC4182 Regnal year 8, Caesarian year 110 61/62 AD. 14.05g NERWNOS KAISAROS SEBASTOU, laureate bust right, wearing aegis Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, palm branch before, H/IP behind. Sorry photo looks a little washed out..  Edited by Ancientnoob
08/07/2012 8:19 pm
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Ancientnoob, Nice coin, well centered, you sure have some nice coins, do you work in Ancient coin shop.....  ......very cool... |
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Do I work at an ancient coins shop...haha no,.. put it this way I dipped my toe, slipped and fell in never to resurface.
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Maybe someone will know more then me. Whats the conversion rate how many denari to my tetradrachm in the 1st century AD?
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Conversion between Egyptian and Imperial coinage was neither easy nor simple. Egypt was a closed economy, the private property of the emperor. They deliberately kept a separate coinage there long after "provincial" coinage had ceased elsewhere in the Empire, to try to keep the Egyptian economy closed (which maximized profits for the emperor).
As a general rule of thumb, a Romano-Egyptian tetradrachm has about as much silver in it as a denarius of the same time period, and the purchasing power would have been about the same. But what you actually obtained as an exchange rate would have depended on which moneychanger you used, how well connected you were, and how "official" your business in Egypt was.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Wow, nice coin! I don't have any ancient coins, but they are cool!
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Nice => very cool coin!!  Ummm, back in the "Greek/BC" era => a tetradrachm = 4 drachmae |
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Sap -thats true for Egypt Billon tets but mine is from Antioch in Syria? Made of fine silver.
Steve- is the denarius equalted to a drachm?
Thanks all, I am glad everyone likes it.
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08/07/2012 11:19 pm
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Hezel dip your toe in the sea of ancients its great.
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Edited by stevex6
08/07/2012 11:13 pm
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Edited by stevex6
08/07/2012 11:38 pm
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Thats nuts a converter!! have I guess it ended up being 1 tetradrachm = 4 drachms= 3.53 Biblical denari
thats really cool.
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Sap -thats true for Egypt Billon tets but mine is from Antioch in Syria? Made of fine silver.  Next time I'll pay more attention to the question before answering it.  As I understand it, the Syrian and Cappadocian drachms were more or less at par with the Imperial denarius, making a tetradrachm equal to a 4-denarii coin (compared with the "cistophoric" tetradrachm of Pergamum, tariffed at 3 denarii). But here again, the actual exchange rate you received would have depended on the particular moneychanger you met. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Sap: thanks for the background info. I have learned a bit more.
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Wow!! Thanks Sap those were both great answers. Any recommended reading?
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