Unknown Roman Republic Quadrans? Spanish? Aeneas and Father?

I've been trying to figure this out and failing - not sure what it weighs, but it is 20 mm or so.

The three pellets led me to believe it is a Roman Republican quadrans? Surely that is Aeneas and his father and the Palladium on the reverse? It's a bit crude, so I checked Roman Spain too. Sicily?

I'm stumped. Any help much appreciated. Sorry about the poor obverse photo - I don't have this in hand, so this is the best I can do.

 

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Nothing I have seen before. But the style, as you noticed, reminds me the Spanish imitatives. In the right side of the reverse I also see a Q, that could be for “quaestor” as in many provincial issues.

 

Don't think it's Aeneas.

How about this one from Colonia Patricia/Corduba?
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I think @Ignoramus Maximus is right! In fact the Q I saw is actually the upper part of the R of CORDVBA, and the D appears too.

 

Thank you! This has been driving me crazy trying to figure it out - I got stuck on this incorrect Aeneas interpretation and it brought me to a dead end.

I found an interesting blog (a CT member?) with some more information:

Type 06: Eros with Upright Torch



There is a well-known coin from Corduba in Spain, a quadrans struck in the name of a certain Cnaeus Julius (ca. 50 B.C.?), with Venus on the obverse and a figure of Cupid with upright torch and cornucopiae on the reverse. Note how Cupid is portrayed here as a feisty teenager, rather than as the chubby cherub often encountered on later provincial coinage.


These coins are often of naïve style and in poor condition (those illustrated here are superior specimens, also heavier in weight than average), and are not part of this study because, like the Roman Republican denarii with Cupid motifs, they were issued before the era of Roman provincial coinage that we are concerned with. The Corduban coins circulated locally at the other end of the Roman world and will scarcely have influenced later provincial issues in the Balkans or Asia Minor. The types refer to Venus, patroness of the Julii (and so, indirectly, to Julius Caesar). For a dramatic mosaic of Eros (with Psyche) from Corduba, see Type 54.

http://eroscoin.blogspot.com/2011/03/type-06-eros-with-upright-torch.html

What a great Forum. Thanks again, @Ignoramus Maximus - despite your handle, you're no ignoramus!

 

Happy to help.

Yeah, that username probably was a poor choice...and I regret it a little, but I'm stuck with it now
I needed a username, and since this is the one I used in a general knowledge quiz, it seemed like an obvious choice. It is really meant ironically (I usually do all-right in these quizzes, you see) and at the time I didn't really realize that it might come across to others as self-deprecation. Oh, well, live and learn...

I added a little 'nomen non est omen' to make up for it...