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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7914584, member: 75937&quot;]I have a provincial for today. Its reverse features a god nobody seems to be able to identify with certainty. He may appear wearing a kalathos or modius on these issues and on such coins, the references call him Serapis. But without the kalathos -- such as on my coin -- Mionnet calls him Jupiter, Moushmov Zeus, Wiczay Genius, Pick &quot;Der Grosse Gott&quot; (the great god), which is the terminology used at the <a href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/coins/28886" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/coins/28886" rel="nofollow">Corpus Nummorum</a>. I don&#039;t know who he is, but were he a goddess, he&#039;d be Homonoia with his patera and cornucopiae.</p><p><br /></p><p>Though this laureate head is commonly encountered, most of the references note a draped and cuirassed bust. How much detail do we go into when citing references for the coin? I still haven&#039;t worked out when &quot;close enough&quot; is close enough. Does anyone have a copy of Lazarenko, <i>Odessos coins from the period of the Roman Empire Part II. Septimius Severus - Geta</i>?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1367109[/ATTACH]</p><p>Septimius Severus, AD 193-211.</p><p>Roman provincial Æ tetrassarion, 26.5 mm, 10.12 g, 1 h.</p><p>Thrace, Odessos.</p><p>Obv: AV K Λ CЄΠ CЄVHPOC, laureate head right.</p><p>Rev: OΔHCCЄITΩN, great god wearing himation, standing facing, head left, sacrificing with patera over altar to left and holding cornucopiae.</p><p>Refs: Moushmov 1596; Mionnet suppl. 2, 902 var. (bust type); Varbanov 4348-9 var. (bust type); AMNG I-2, 2262 var. (bust type); SNG Cop 672 var. (bust type).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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