What is this coin?

Hello,

I can not remember and also not find anymore? Agrippa II? or?

 

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Try rotating the photos 90 degrees to the right and have another look.
(Your 'orientation' is wrong.)

 

Sorry I am at work, can not rotate the picture I have for the moment...

 

I am sorry. I don't understand what you wrote.
It is easy. There I have done it for you.
I hope it helps. Regards

 

If he is at work he probably used his cellphone.

 

correct....

 

ahaha => then spin the coin so it looks correct (what happens in your head?!!) ...

oh, and get back to work!!



... pretty cool OP-coin, Cyrrhus

 

So back home, still I do not know what it is..exactly..:-((

 

I don't know what it is (yet ) but it is interesting! That's the biggest shield I've seen on a coin, assuming it is a shield. Also, I've never seen Nike seated with the shield before her rather than beside or behind.

Hey Cyrrhus... when you post these coins for identification please remember that it is very helpful to also post the size and weight.

 

Sorry indeed, it is around 10 grams and 2,3 cm in size.
Yes it is a shield with Nike I also think.

 

under the shield and Nike is the letters:CTIS.
on the side I can not read it well also around the head I can not read it

 

It should be from the East or Cilicia area, I think

 

Based on the portrait and what I think I can see of the obverse legend, I think it will turn out to be a provincial of Caracalla or Elagabalus.

 

The legend on the right side of the reverse is a town name, but I can't make out all the letters from that image. Can you take more pics that show the letters better?

 

Think I found it, or something quite similar

From CNG's archives


CAPPADOCIA, Tyana. Caracalla. AD 198-217. Æ 25mm (14.04 g). Dated RY 16 (AD 213). Laureate head right / Victory seated right on rocks, holding large shield inscribed VIC/AVG in two lines. BMC Galatia -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -; Mionnet Supp. VIII, 326. VF, green and brown patina, some light roughness.

 

Looks like it !! many many thanks !!

 

CNG's archive is so awesome. Their search function is very well made. I used the search terms "Caracalla, AE, shield"

I briefly looked through Wildwinds and tried their search function using the keywords Nike seated right, "shield before". Granted, I knew even as I clicked "search" that the terms were too complicated. It returned couple of pages of dead-end hits with this hilarious expansion at the bottom:

 

Who doesn't know country rock singer Joe?

 

I'm still trying to figure out how the search engine came up with those choices as being in any way related to the search terms.

Shh!! Don't out AncientJoe!