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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 7790081, member: 80952&quot;]You&#039;re welcome!</p><p>You did 99% of the work for this coin. My strategy for these is to investigate all the clues in the coin and if something doesn&#039;t seem right, eliminate one by one. </p><p>In this case, the city is definitely Marcianopolis. Emperor - Elagabalus, the legend and the portrait fit. Now all that remained is the reverse where the image looks like Tyche but in fact it isn&#039;t. So just investigate the obvious - scales and cornucopiae, no other symbols, no letters in field....</p><p>If no match is found, this means that:</p><p>- the coin is not catalogued at all</p><p>- the coin is too worn to identify</p><p>- one of the assumptions is wrong. </p><p>Here is an example where I was not able to attribute at all. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1337229[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninus Pius? Marcus Aurelius?</p><p><br /></p><p>Tyche? Curule? something in right hand, perhaps patera? left hand leaning on the chair? crossed legs?</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t find a clear match and the wear of the coin doesn&#039;t help at all. </p><p>Yesterday I decided to centralize my collection in an Excel file, this seemed like a good idea but actually doing it is a different story. Had a look again. </p><p>One that seems to fit, but the style is completely different, is </p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6616" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6616" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6616</a></p><p>Is it this coin? I don&#039;t think so. </p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. my name is not Dacian <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I live in a territory that was once Dacia and &quot;Taraboste&quot; is how the Romans called the Dacian nobles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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