ID Help - Stag standing left (Caracalla? Ant Pi? Aurelius?)

I am having trouble with this coin from @tenbobbit
It's rather handsome, but I can't figure which ruler it is!

The obverse shows ANTONIN which sort of limits it to, I think, Caracalla, Antoninus Pius, or Marcus Aurelius.

Reverse shows a stag standing left. I see what appears to be EPHESOS.

I looked through Wildwinds pages for all three of my guesses, but could not find a matching stag left. I did find a stag left for Marcus Aurelius, but the obverse legend did not match.

Pls help.



Diameter: 17mm

 

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I looked up "stag, l." on rpc and found this one from Trajan. It has a similar diameter and design. I'm probably way off the mark though...
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2052

 

Thanks for your effort! Reverse is spot on, but obverse seems to indicate an Antonine...

 

Yeah, I can't make out the ANTONIN that you are seeing, but that's probably just me.

 

I THINK it’s Antonin, but I don’t really know muself

 

I think @furryfrog02 has Ephesus right - maybe the Antoninus Pius version:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2656589

 

This one? Antoninus Pius.

 

Thanks for all your help. The beard looks Pius enough to me, so I think I’ll go with that!

 

Bare with my logic process here...

The stag portrayal is often associated with Artemis, so her dedicated temple there would help confirm Ephesos.

I'm getting a 'Pius' vibe from the portrait on the obverse.

I found this...though the reverse legend doesn't match...



The legend on your coin looks more like this one, except that the stag is right...


Hmmm...


EDIT: It looks like @Roman Collector may have found it.