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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3012722, member: 75937&quot;]Hmmm...</p><p><br /></p><p>According to <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=365365" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=365365" rel="nofollow">acsearchinfo</a>, CNG sold the Lindgren plate coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]747379[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But they attribute it to a different mint, based upon the reverse inscription. The countermark is supposedly an anchor. CNG described the coin as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;LYCAONIA, Laranda(?). Iotape, wife of Antiochos IV, King of Commagene. AD 38-72. Æ 25mm (16.33 g). Diademed and draped bust of Iotape right; c/m: anchor / ΛΥKAONΩN, scorpion within wreath. RPC I 3534.1 = Lindgren I 1887 (this coin); SNG France -; Howgego 372 (for countermark). VF, brown surfaces, light roughness. Rare, only one other specimen cited in RPC.</p><p>From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So Lindgren was wrong in his attribution and mine isn&#039;t this one. On my coin, I can see AΓ in the 5:00 position and ΗИΩИ starting in the 7:00 position on the reverse. Mine must therefore read KΟΜΜΑΓ−ΗИΩИ and would be from Commagene (Samosata mint, per Sear).</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting how the Ns are backwards on this particular reverse die (shown rotated so the end of the inscription is more or less upright):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]747390[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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