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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2691016, member: 75937&quot;]This is a coin of Commodus FOR SURE. It is a Roman Provincial coin from the city of Pautalia in Thrace FOR SURE.</p><p><br /></p><p>My best guess is that is was issued by the moneyer Julius Castus, AD 184-185, based upon the fragmentary reverse inscription. I believe the coin is Ruzicka 184, which he notes has a diameter of 29 mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is not listed at Wildwinds or in Moushmov. I don&#039;t have access to Varbanov, so I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s in there, nor do I have access to Strack.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruzicka describes this obverse as: [ΑΥΓ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΡ] ΑΥΡ ΚΟΜ[Ο]Δ[ΟC], Kopf mit L. r. (langer Hals), which I, a non-German person, translate as &quot;Laureate head, right (long neck).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And the reverse: ΗΓΕ ΙΟΥ ΚΑCΤΟΥ|ΟΥΛ (so) ΠΑΥΤΑΛΙ u. i. Feld r. unten ΑC, Hera l. stehend, im Chiton und Himation, mit Mantelüberwurf um die Hüften und über den arm, in der vorgestreckten R. Schale; die erhobene L. mit Mantelzipfel am Szepter.</p><p><br /></p><p>On this particular die, the name of the city is broken after ΠΑΥΤΑΛΙ and it continues with AC in the &quot;exergue.&quot; Therefore, I am fairly confident of the attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruzicka&#039;s reverse description I, a non-German person, translate as &quot;Hera standing left, in Chiton and Himation, with drapery thrown over hips and arm, in the outstretched&nbsp; r. hand, patera; the raised l. hand with drapery on scepter.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d appreciate if one of our German members could double-check this translation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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