As the goddess of Agriculture, Demeter has a hand in making every piece of pie we eat. And here we have this very thick pie-sized coin of APi. Yum! This has a lamination flaw(?) which is almost like if you peel back the crust on a pie to unveil the delicious filling. Seriously, though, what's the attribution? I can read on the rev: IONYCOP-OLCITON which means absolutely nothing to me and has nothing close to a match on Wildwinds. 27mm, 14g
Now that you mention Dionysopolis, it appears that this is actually the Great God of Odessos rather than Demeter. Here's Varbanov 425 Demeter holds some feathers or something with GG holds a patera.
I have only one coin from this city. Gordian III, AD 238-244. Roman provincial Æ Pentassarion, 12.49 g, 26.6 mm, 7 h. Moesia Inferior, Dionysopolis, AD 238-241. Obv: AVT K M (below)/ANTWNIOC ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑVΓ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, facing draped bust of Serapis, left, wearing modius. Rev: ΔΙΟΝVCΟΠ-ΟΛΙΤΩΝ, Hygieia standing left, feeding serpent from a patera; E in lower left field. Refs: Varbanov 559; AMNG I 395 var.; BMC 3, p.24, 4; Mionnet Suppl 2, 82; Moushmov 133; SNG Budapest 31; Jekov 49; SNRIS Dionysopolis 12.
I'm sorry I couldn't be more ... accurate last night when I was searching for your coin and finally found the city, I was comparing it with the Demeter I found and noticed that on the reverse the thing that the deity holds in the right hand don't seem like corn ears, but I thought this is just because of encrustations... I found the Varbanov 425 reference on Wildwinds, but the same coin in RPC seems to be described as Sarapis? https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/9976 Anyway today I found out something new, Dionysopolis is called Balchik today. The fun fact is this town is my favorite holiday destination ...
I wonder if it’s Serapis or GG. GG is pretty obscure, and typically on coins of Odessos or nearby. I honestly don’t know the typography difference beteeen the two. I’ll catalog this as “GG or Serapis,” and call it even
