can't even read where this coin is from

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  1. cmezner

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    Can someone please help me identifying this coin? have been searching through all the Greek cities at wildwinds but can't figure it out:confused:

    AE 16; 2.628 g

    Ob.: ΔY--MEΩΝ (?) bust of Athena to r. wearing crested Corinthian helmet and aegis
    Rev.: don't know what it is ANIΔIK-POΝ (?)

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  4. Victor_Clark

    Victor_Clark all my best friends are dead Romans Dealer

    not even close

    maybe mt Argaeus
     
  5. 3BStuff

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    sorry don't do much with these :/
     
  6. Victor_Clark

    Victor_Clark all my best friends are dead Romans Dealer

    this is close; but no cigar

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    Cappadocia, Eusebeia-Caesarea
     
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    It looks like a Cappadocia, Caesarea. Search through the Wildwind database here:
    https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/cappadocia/caesarea/i.html

    There are also quite a few books specifically dedicated to the coinage of Cappadocia, Caesarea:
    The Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia by Edward Sydenham is a very good reference.
     
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  9. The Meat man

    The Meat man Well-Known Member

    @cmezner could you maybe take different photos with other light angles? I can't seem to locate anything like it either, and maybe a different look would help.
     
  10. The Meat man

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    Nevermind - I think I found it. Looks like a small semi-autonomous coin from the Phrygian city of Docimeum, dated to the 2nd-3rd centuries AD:

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    "PHRYGIA. Docimeum. Pseudo-autonomous. Ae (2nd-3rd centuries AD).
    Obv: ΔOKIMEΩN.
    Helmeted bust of Athena right, wearing aegis.
    Rev: ANΓΔICCHΩN.
    Mount Agdistis.
    SNG by Aulock 8355; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -.
    Condition: Very fine.
    Weight: 2.35 g. Diameter: 16 mm."

    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2934321



    Variety with slightly different obverse legend arrangement:
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    "Roman Provincial
    PHRYGIA, Docimeum, Pseudo-autonomous AE17 (Bronze, 3.01g, 17mm) 2nd-3rd centuries .
    Obv: ΔOKIMEΩN - Helmeted bust of Athena right, wearing aegis.
    Rev: ANΓΔICCHΩN - Mount Agdistis
    SNG von Aulock 8355; BMC -; SNG Copenhagen -."


    https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9035474

    Seems to be pretty rare - a search for "SNG 8355" ~5 yields only 4 results on ACSearch. In addition to being missing from the British Museum collection and the SNG Copenhagen reference.
     
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  11. cmezner

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    Thank you so much @The Meat man.

    I reached out to Dane at wildwinds and she kindly gave me the attribution you are sharing.

    I quote her answer and will tell her that I shared at CT her information:

    "It's from Dokimion/Docimeum/Dokimeum, Phrygia with Mount Agdistis:
    www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/phrygia/dokimion/SNG_vA_8355.jpg
    and the text:
    www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/phrygia/dokimion/SNG_vA_8355.txt
    A different one (same types, same legends) from the Righetti collection, had the legend clockwise from lower left. To see that one, just add _2 to the number
    8355 above, so SNG_vA_8355_2"
     
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