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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2442766, member: 19463&quot;]Thanks for the input.&nbsp; I do not know the correct answer.&nbsp; These are found on many coins of Stratoniceia in Caria.&nbsp; Some are said to be Caracalla or Geta.&nbsp; The previous owner of this one guessed Macrinus but I am not convince of any answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>This example is from one of my 15 new coins from the show in Annandale VA yesterday.&nbsp; These large AE38 coins are not rare but many are worse than this one. I saw one with full legends which was termed &#039;restored&#039; by the seller.&nbsp; The rest of us would call it tooled.&nbsp; Mine is not tooled and has as much of the legend as most I have seen.&nbsp; The coin or medallion as you prefer was issued to honor the marriage of Caracalla and Plautilla.&nbsp; You will find many dies with either bust on either side and either this Zeus Panamaros on horse reverse or Hecate standing.&nbsp; The number of dies suggests a huge issue for so large a coin.&nbsp; I would like to know more about the issue.&nbsp; The countermark here is a great strike for this issue but came at the price of flattening the horse head and Zeus.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]509313[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On several occasions in past threads I have shown my two Septimius/Domna coins of the city (both with Hecate).&nbsp; One has the typical poor countermark while the other had the countermark dug out as if the subject was Damnatio Memoriae. It is a mystery to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]509316[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]509317[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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