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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7716222, member: 75937&quot;]I&#039;ve been thinking about this a lot. Here is a coin from my collection from the Thracian city of Deultum which, as a Roman colony, used Latin inscriptions. Compare the obverses of our two coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/mamaea-deultum-homonoia-jpg.1000758/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Julia Mamaea, AD 222-235.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Roman provincial Æ 23.4 mm, 9.73 g.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Thrace, Deultum, AD 222-235.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVG, diademed and draped bust right.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Rev: COL FL PAC DEVLT, Homonoia standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae.</font></p><p><font size="3">&nbsp;Refs: Varbanov 2337; Moushmov 2623; Jurukova 164; <a href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/coins?id=7165" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/coins?id=7165" rel="nofollow">CN 7165</a>; SNG Bobokov 535.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>They aren&#039;t die-matches, but I&#039;d be very surprised if they weren&#039;t engraved by the same person. I suspect that there was a centralized mint along the Black Sea coast that minted coins for several cities in the region and that Deultum and Marcianopolis were serviced by this centralized mint. Perhaps your coin was a mint error -- a hybrid/mule -- in which the obverse meant for Deultum was unintentionally paired with a reverse intended for Marcianopolis.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoQXlJ4XUAgDZBF.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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