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Message:: [QUOTE="TIF, post: 3952089, member: 56859"]Not that I've found. I tried to discern some of the obverse legend.  Sometimes you can nail it or narrow it down just based on general shape of the characters but I can't pin this one down with any certainty.  Maybe in hand you can tell more.  Sometimes a pencil rubbing (tracing paper atop the coin, rub with a pencil or charcoal) can bring to light some letters. I'll list the candidates with their obverse legends below (courtesy of Emmett's handy book). As for the star, Emmett doesn't flyspeck the designs so that detail may not help.  All of my coin books except Emmett are packed and in a shipping container so I can't access them for another month or so but if you remind me in late January I'll see if Milne or others can help narrow down your coin. Portraits became rather generic around the time of Claudius II or shortly after.  Based on the known issuers of "Nike flying right" for RY 3, and the generic portrait, here are the possibilities for your coin: Aurelian      AVTKΛΔAVPHΛIANOCCEB  or AKΛΔOMAVPHΛIANOCCEB Carinus       AKMAKAPINOCCEB Numerian    AKMANOVMEPIANOCCEB Diocletian    AKΓOVAΛΔΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟCCEB or AKΓOVAΔΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟCCEB Maximianus  AKMAOVAMAΞIMIANOCCEB or AKMOVAMAΞIMIANOCCEB Constantius  ΦΛΑΚωCTANTIOCK  or ΦΛΑΚωNCTANTIOCK Galerius       ΓAΛMAΞIMIANOCK I think I see an M in the second or third position of your coin's obverse legend.[/QUOTE]