It's also from the pick-bin. I'm guessing it is Caracalla but can't find it. A similar one with a radiate head is BMC, Galatia, Cappadoccia and Syria, 16 - 18, but the head is radiate like this one at wildwinds: https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/caracalla/_damascus_AE25_BMC_16.jpg AE 22, 9.447 g It is some Antoninus. The obverse legend seems to be AYT KAI AYΓOYC ANTΩNEINOC I guess the reverse legend is ΔAMACK ....EOC and depicts a Tetrastyle shrine with a turreted bust of Astarte to l., arched lintel and domed roof. Your help is very much appreciated
Thank you @Factor, however BMC 16-18 doesn't have the same animal in exergue. I asked Dane at wildwinds for her help; this is her information which I'm sharing with CT members: "The Damascus coin: there seems to be a large variety of these, some with part of the legend below, others with a -o-o- pattern under the temple base (BMC Galatia 16-17 calls them "two wreaths"), some with diagonal lines, and some - like yours - with an animal. Saulcy also mentions several varieties of patterns and legends but doesn't mention the ram, nor does Mionnet. The animal on your coin is definitely a ram leaping right. When I lighten the reverse I can see the curved ram's horn. (On coins of other emperors/empresses, the ram is in the pediment of the temple). Above the ram on yours I can see traces of the -o-o- pattern, i.e. between the floor of the temple and the ram. I found one, also worn but visible, in the Ahli Bank collection in Jordan, under Damascus 3. (No proper inventory number is given) The obv. legend on that one begins AYT KAI A.., rest is worn and has the usual reverse of DAMACTOY MHTROPOLEOC, as on yours. That one also has the -o-o- pattern at the base of the temple above the ram. So I'd say this is Ahli Bank Damascus 3."
