Maybe another RRR Lucky Bargain Find?

Picked up this little bronze RPC with a few others last week to give as gifts for my students, for ten dollars each. It was attributed as an Antoninus Pius from Tyana. But I think it is this very rare Cilicia/Anazarbas issue. One of three known? Could this be correct? This is what the seller called it:"NICE ANTONIUS PIUS AE21 TYANA Ancient bronze Roman coin. It measures 21 MM and weighs 7.81".
This is what I figure it might be according to acsearch and Wildwinds:
Acsearch: CILICIA, Anazarbus. Antoninus Pius. 138-161 AD. Æ 22mm (6.15 gm). Dated year 179 (160/161 AD). Radiate head right / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding ear of grain; river-god Pyramos swimming left below. SNG Levante 1388 = Zeigler 143.1 (Vs 3 / Rs 8 - this coin); SNG France-; SNG von Aulock -. Near VF, dark gray patina, rough. Very rare, only two specimens from two different die combinations cited by Zeigler.

 

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Looks like a match to me!

Nice find!

 

Well, you have already convinced me it's a match...and a very cool bargain too!!

 

WoW!

 

Fantastic @Mike Margolis - Nice catch.

 

Here is the closest match of what it was listed as from Tyana, that I pulled from wild winds. And as you can see your coin matches the very rare Anazarbas and not the Tyana. Way to go! What a score

 

Thanks for adding that Ryro- that clarifies the mis-attribution. It was the two letters under either side of the bust that was the key to figure what it was amongst all the many on acsearch. I guess people are cleaning up coins and not having the expertise enough to identify what they really are before they turn them around in the market.

 

that would be the way to get a deal..

 

Lucky duck.

 

Lucky is right. I also got this wild coin in the same little group for a few bucks. The seller did not seem to know that the reverse was of a famous volcano- Mt.Argeaus and so the pinkish red patina makes it kinda spectacular with a lava flow due to centuries of chemical reactions.
"REALLY NICE COIN with an AWESOME Reverse Side. Cappadocia Caesarea SEVERUS ALEXANDER AE coin. Minted between 222&235 A.D. It measures 24 MM and weighs 10.06 Grams Gauranteed Authentic Ancient Coin "

 

Nice, but it probably isn't quite that rare.
since there is at least 4 on acsearch
https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=1&company=

 

Thank You arnoldoe, and maybe there were several in the batch that this one got cleaned up from. Thanks for finding the rest.