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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3443754, member: 56859&quot;]I think it is probably a nice coin and look forward to actual pictures rather than a horribly low resolution scan...</p><p><br /></p><p>Charles, let&#039;s walk through the attribution process again.&nbsp; The coins you acquire locally are all from the general region, or seem to be, so that is a good starting point.&nbsp; You could also try reading the obverse legend, although the emperor&#039;s name is indistinct in this scan.&nbsp; Perhaps it is clearer on the coin.&nbsp; The legend starts with AYTOKKMA... so that can be quite helpful.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can pick a few features from the coin and use those as search terms in ACsearch (tyche pedestal AE, for example).&nbsp; Or, since you have the advantage of a narrowed-down list of issuing locales, you might get lucky with a Wildwinds hit.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, you could search cities of Mesopotamia on Wildwinds (and indeed the iconography and style are suggestive of this being an issue of Edessa,Mesopotamia).</p><p><br /></p><p>Go to the <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/i.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/i.html" rel="nofollow">Greek page on Wildwinds</a> and scroll down the page to Mesopotamia.&nbsp; Click each city.&nbsp; You will find this coin on the Edessa page.&nbsp; Provincial portraits often don&#039;t resemble Imperial portraits but in this case the portrait looks very much like the Imperial portraits of the emperor.&nbsp; You could ID the emperor of this coin by the portrait alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>And once again, please please please post <i>pictures</i> of your coins (in focus and well lit) rather than scans when you want us to help with attribution.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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