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XavierOfGreen Pillar of the Community United States 2589 Posts	Posted 05/18/2012 8:59 pm Hello! I've been picking up alot of wholesale bulk lots lately from local dealers and I found this two headed roman coin among one of the lots. Any help identifying it would be immensely appreciated. -XoG Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 05/18/2012 11:05 pm Interesting coin, I believe that it's a Roman provincial, perhaps a tetradrachm. I'm not able to make out the legends so I can't tell who they are. Report this Post to the Staff
ancientcoinguy Pillar of the Community United States 842 Posts	Posted 05/18/2012 11:11 pm Yes echizento is right it is a tetradrachm and that means it should be from Alexandria. However, I do not know how to read these inscriptions so I can not help you with an attribution. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 05/18/2012 11:29 pm Haven't checked, but so far I would agree that it is Alexandrian from the style and fabric, perhaps of Philip 1 (obv.), and Philip 11 (rev.). Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16871 Posts	Posted 05/19/2012 05:47 am I believe it's a tetradrachm of Vabalathus and Aurelian; see the one labelled Milne 1735 on the Wildwinds page. By the way, XoG, there are folks looking for you, if you hadn't noticed. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
dougsmit Pillar of the Community United States 1549 Posts	Posted 05/19/2012 07:51 am This has been seen here recently: https://goccf.com/t/118798&SearchTerms=Vabalathus Report this Post to the Staff
XavierOfGreen Pillar of the Community United States 2589 Posts	Posted 05/19/2012 08:25 am Thanks all for the responses! And thanks sap for posting that link! I've sent John an email, I haven't been able to receive PM's from certain people for some time now as well as pocket it now alerts, I've tried posting in the technical issues section to no avail. I suppose I'll have to try switching out my email address with another one to see if it will solve the problem. Report this Post to the Staff
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