http://www.moneteromane.info/grande.jpg obv. AVT K M OΠ CEOY M-AKPEINOC CEB (Macrinus) rev. AΠA-ME-ΩN (Demeter offering ears of grain to Tyche??) 9,55g, 24mm, 12h It seems nowhere to be found. Any suggestion is appreciated Giulio De Florio
I have not looked for references as of yet, but thought it might be better to bring the image onto this thread: Then I thought to lighten the coin somewhat: I hope you don't mind.
What an interesting coin and puzzle! It does seem to be a coin of Apameia in Phrygia rather than from the Apameia in Bithynia or Apamea in Syria. I don't see any similar coin of Macrinus or any other emperor in ACsearch and an ISEGRIM search also came up empty, although I'm not confident of my usage of ISEGRIM despite @Ed Snible's more user-friendly interface. I also checked Imhoof-Blumer, F. Kleinasiatische Münzen. (Vienna, 1901 - 1902), and found nothing like it in the Phrygia Apameia section, although I don't speak or read German so I may have missed something in spot-checking a few key words. BMC Phrygia doesn't have it.
When the goddess of Roman provincial coin identification comes up empty, abandon all hope of IDing it.
You are giving me far too much credit, but thanks I'd love to spend a week at CNG or other place with a vast library, trying my hand at identifying puzzling coins! How fun would that be? Oh, and I'd go through their vaults while there . Ditto for ANS. Maybe I'll visit the ANS library and vault someday.
I'm getting more and more convinced that the coin/medal is a modern fake: colours too uniform, flat flan, recovery place Slovenia but probable mint Asia Minor .. Giulio De Florio
Personally I don't feel it is fake even though I searched all my known databases and came up zero just like @TIF. I suppose it depends on what you paid, but I think I would take a chance on this one. It is lovely.
It is not mine, I am not a collector, I just provide advice on coins through my site http://www.monetaromana.it/ Giulio De Florio
Is the legend on the obverse smaller than the reverse a telltale sign that something might be off about this?
If you get a chance you should go. The library has open stacks (not including the rare book room). Nearly every book on Greek coins is on a pair of shelves and you can just browse and pull the ones you want down.
