Archaios | Egypt Alexandria Diocletian AE Tetradrachm / Zeus Eagle Patera| i38.2

Description

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Description:
Roman Bronze AE Tetradrachm, from Alexandria Egypt of Emperor Diocletian Dated RY 7 (290/291 AD).
Obverse:
Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Right.
Reverse:
Zeus Standing left holding Scepter and extending Patera; Eagle standing at feet; Date in flanking fields: L - Z (RY 7).
Mint:
Alexandria, Egypt
Size:
19 mm
Weight:
6.47 g
Ref:
SNG Cop 1001 var. (RY date) ; Emmett 4087
Condition:
VF
As always, Please use the Pictures as your judge as grading is subjective.
Note:
Alexandria
was an ancient city of Egypt whose history dates back to the city's founding, by Alexander the Great, in 331 BC. After its foundation, Alexandria became the seat of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, and quickly grew to be one of the greatest cities of the Hellenistic world. Only Rome, which gained control of Egypt in 30 BC, eclipsed Alexandria in size and wealth.
City of Learning - Library of Alexandria
Alexander and then the Ptolemies fostered the development of the Library of Alexandria and associated Musaeum into a renowned center for Hellenistic learning. The city and its famous library and the Musaeum fostered the development of such notable individuals as geometry and number-theorist
Euclid
; the astronomer
Hipparchus
; and
Eratosthenes
, known for calculating the Earth's circumference and for his algorithm for finding prime numbers, who became head librarian.
Strabo lists Alexandria, with Tarsus and Athens, among the learned cities of the world, observing also that Alexandria both admits foreign scholars and sends its natives abroad for further education.
Egypt under the Romans
From the time of annexation and onwards, Alexandria seemed to have regained its old prosperity, commanding, as it did, an important granary of Rome. The city passed formally under Roman jurisdiction in 80 BC, according to the will of Ptolemy Alexander but only after it had been under Roman influence for more than a hundred years. Many early emperors of Rome played parts in the early history of Alexandria -- Julius Caesar dallied with Cleopatra in Alexandria in 47 BC and was besieged in the city by Cleopatra's brother. Later Mark Antony came but was defeated in Alexandria at the Battle of Actium after which Octavian took Egypt as personal property of the emperor.
Some Excerpts From Head, Hist. Num., and Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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