I'm hoping someone can put me out of my misery and help me identify this coin. I put it away years ago because I couldn't figure it out and just recently came across it once again. Here it is: Ae (13mm, 2.0gms) Obv: Tyche seated on rocks with river-god below, star in left field and crescent over leaping ram (or maybe lion) in right field; inscription around ... maybe, tough to tell Rev: Tyche walking left holding wreath, altar(?) to left
What are the dimensions? It looks very similar to the anonymous coinage from Antioch issued under Maximinus II; however, I can't seem to find a match.
I was going to say the same thing as @Bing - but I can't make out a legend on the obverse also I don't know if any of the Maximinus' pagan city types feature Nike/Victory.
It's 13mm and 2.0gms which isn't that far off the norm for those types. There was a thread a few days ago about the persecution issues and that's what got me to take a second look at this coin. It may be an unpublished type of these struck on a small flan which obfuscates the legend but the main reason I don't necessarily believe that is the star, crescent and ram on the obverse which don't seem to fit it at all.
Crescent, star, ram(Aries) and Tyche all point to Nisbis, Mesopotamia but I have not found a similar example.
I agree with Bing and ACT. Here's a similar coin which was struck under Maximinus II. Victory is there, bur Jupiter seated instead of Tyche. We may expect so many hidden varieties from this series.
