Does anyone have a reference for this Plautilla from Nicaea?

Does anyone have a reference for this little bronze from Nicaea, Bithynia?

3.08 g, 15.8 mm
Obv: ΠΛΑVΤΙΛΛΑ CEΒΑCΤΗ, bare-headed and dr. bust, r.
Rev: ΝΙΚΑ-ΙΕΩΝ, goddess (Demeter? Homonoia?) standing l., holding (patera and?) long torch/scepter.



Now, other examples of this little coin have been for sale in a couple of places.

CNG: https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=95156
Tom Vossen: https://www.vcoins.com/cn/stores/to..._rg_494_pl_lxxx_3_ae_27mm/662277/Default.aspx

Now, each of these dealers shows a little coin--about an AE 17, with a reverse similar to or matching mine. Each of them says to compare the coin to Waddington's Recueil General Des Monnaies Grecques D'Asie Mineure, 494, pl. LXXX.

But that catalog listing is for an AE 27--quite a bit bigger and it has a different obverse legend:



Now, CNG and Vossen say the goddess is Demeter, probably because of the similar coin in Waddington. I'm not so sure. I believe in my coin (the photo doesn't show it all that well but Vossen's does) shows a figure standing holding a patera and scepter, which would suggest it is Homonoia/Concordia. Indeed, compare the reverse to an imperial issue of Plautilla with Concordia on the reverse.



Anyone have any more info on this little coin?

 

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'Wildwinds' shows a similar coin at
Plautilla -
NicaeaMionnet 706
Plautilla, AE22 of Nicaea, Bithynia. PLAUTILLA CEBACTH, draped bust right / NIKAIEWN, Tyche or Ceres standing left, holding corn-ears and a poppy in lowered left hand, right hand on hip (torch in right arm?), wheel at foot left. cf Mionnet Supp. V, 706.
It is still a bit large though.

 

For what it is worth, this entry on CNG comes closest.

 

Thanks for looking. The CNG coin is the same coin as mine but CNG, as noted above, references a coin in Waddington's Recueil General Des Monnaies Grecques D'Asie Mineure that is not the same coin.

 

What I'm seeing in the Tom Vossen coin is a Demeter that looks just like this full size Rec Gen 494 from Wildwinds:



However, I'm not certain that your coin is the same type as the Tom Vossen one. Yours does look like the CNG one, though. You could be right that it's not Demeter and is Homonoia (though to me it looks like she's holding a cornucopia and not sceptre), and in that case, perhaps yours would best be described cf. RG 496 for being a smaller module of that type with different legends, just as the Vossen coin is cf. RG 494.