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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 5130626, member: 75937&quot;]I saw this bizarrely-rendered coin at auction today and I had to buy it. It&#039;s very crude in its inscriptions, with upside down letters and misspellings, and in its portrait. I think it&#039;s of a young Caracalla or Elagabalus and from Hadrianopolis (Thrace) or Hadrianopolis Sebaste (Phrygia).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d be grateful if anyone can find a reference for this coin or otherwise help me identify it further. Thanks!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1203655[/ATTACH]</p><p>Caracalla, AD 198-217.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ 21.7 mm, 5.81 g, 6 h.</p><p>Hadrianopolis-Sebaste; Poteitos, archon, AD 198-209.</p><p>Obv: M AV ANTƱNЄI, laureate and cuirassed bust, right.</p><p>Rev: ΑΔΡΙΑ APX ΠOTЄITO, Tyche standing, left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder set on globe and cornucopiae.</p><p>Refs: BMC 25.225,4 var.; SNG Cop 407 (same obv. die); Lindgren 959 var.; Babelon IW 6069.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, there is some precedent for the upside down omegas in the inscription. See this Commodus provincial of Alexandria, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Commodus+16005" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=Commodus+16005" rel="nofollow">RPC IV.4, 16005 (temporary)</a>, which reads Μ ΑVΡΗ ΚΟΜΜ ΑΝΤƱΝΙΝΟϹ Ϲ.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1203656[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Compare the coin to <a href="https://emax.bid/en/lot/85260" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://emax.bid/en/lot/85260" rel="nofollow">this one</a> of Julia Domna:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1203659[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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