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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3011574, member: 75937&quot;]I received this coin in the mail earlier this week:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]746954[/ATTACH]</p><p>Time of Commodus</p><p>Quasi-autonomous AE 26.1 mm, 8.01 g, 5 h</p><p>Ionia, Smyrna, Strategos Kl. Stratoneikianos, AD 182-184</p><p>Obv: ΙЄΡΑ ϹVΝ [ΚΛΗΤΟϹ], draped bust of Senate, right</p><p>Rev: CΤΡ•CΤΡΑΤΟΝЄΚ[ΙΑΝΟV СΜVΡΝΑΙΩΝ], Winged Nemesis of Smyrna, advancing right, plucking chiton and holding bridle</p><p>Refs: RPC IV 278 (temp); Klose XV B a; SNG Cop. 1304.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have tracked down the listing in SNG Copenhagen and I believe my coin is a reverse die match to the Copenhagen plate coin. First, here&#039;s the listing:*</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]746953[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">*We now know it&#039;s from the time of Commodus, not Severus, because Kl. Stratoneikianos was magistrate from AD 182-184.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Note how the listing mentions that the first iota in CΤΡΑΤΟΝЄΙΚΙΑΝΟV (the name of the magistrate (Strategos) Kl. Stratoneikianos) is uncertain. My coin&#039;s inscription reads CΤΡΑΤΟΝЄΚ[...]. This is a spelling variation from other coins from this issuing authority such as <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=158708" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=158708" rel="nofollow">this one</a>, <a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/281/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/281/" rel="nofollow">this one</a>, and the <a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/278/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/278/" rel="nofollow">RPC listing for my coin</a>, which all read CΤΡΑΤΟΝЄΙΚΙΑΝΟV with an iota between the Є and the Κ.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, I suspect that my coin is a reverse die-match to the Copenhagen plate coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]746955[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A side-to-side comparison shows an excellent correspondence between the shape of the visible letters of the reverse inscription and between the letters&#039; relationship to the Nemesis figure:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]746956[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s a match? What do you think?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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