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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3237828, member: 56859&quot;]It does look like Faustina Jr but there are a few reasons it isn&#039;t Alexandrian.&nbsp; Tetradrachms of that era had more silver than does this coin, plus the weight is wrong for a tetradrachm, even when considering the wear and corrosion.&nbsp; There are some Alexandrian bronze denominations for Faustina Jr but again the metal doesn&#039;t look right nor does the flan shape.&nbsp; Obols and diobols had a distinctive casting shape, with the margins of one side rounded and the other side sharp, from casting the flan in a shallow bowl-like depression.&nbsp; Also, the reverse iconography doesn&#039;t fit with any of her obol or diobol issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse seems to be a female deity or personification standing left, holding a cornucopia, and pouring from a patera over an altar.&nbsp; In Alexandrian coinage, that entity could be Homonoia.&nbsp; If the reverse is indeed Homonoia, Thrace is a possibility although the low bun on her portrait doesn&#039;t resemble the others I see in archives:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=4428&amp;category=122754&amp;lot=3632260" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=4428&amp;category=122754&amp;lot=3632260" rel="nofollow">https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=4428&amp;category=122754&amp;lot=3632260</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.sixbid.com/media/auction_images/4428/3632260l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] showed us in a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/male-and-female-deities-with-identical-attributes.322431/#post-3173005" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/male-and-female-deities-with-identical-attributes.322431/#post-3173005">recent thread</a>, there is sometimes overlap of attributes among deities.&nbsp; Serapis is also occasionally depicted holding a cornucopia and pouring from a patera, so that might be a search avenue for you, although I believe the reverse of your coin shows a female.&nbsp; Other non-female entities who sometimes hold a cornucopia and pour from a patera over an altar include Genius, Tyche, Emperors (not sure about Empresses), Harmony (on Imperials), and probably some others.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an interesting possibility from AC search:&nbsp; a Faustina bronze from Samaria.&nbsp; The listing calls the reverse figure Tyche.&nbsp; Tyche is not shown full length; her body seems cut off around her knees or thereabouts.&nbsp; Your coin looks like it may also show a less than full length reverse standing figure, although it&#039;s difficult to tell.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4873883" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4873883" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4873883</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]846848[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Getting a firm ID on your coin is going to be difficult at best.&nbsp; Trying will be fun though!</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, in addition to a long list of non-fun activities, I&#039;m going to be photographing and trying to ID a bunch of ex-BCD coins which languished unattributed in his collection.&nbsp; I&#039;m really looking forward to it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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