This is clearly some kind of provincial coin and the thick-necked emperor is unfamiliar to me.

This is clearly some kind of provincial coin and the thick-necked emperor is unfamiliar to me. What kind of coin is this with such a long comment? Makedonien?

 

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I believe I can read the ethnic used for Neapolis in Samaria/Judaea.
Probably under Domitian (provincial portraits could be highly variable).
ΦΛΑΟΥΙ / ΝΕΑΠΟΛΙ / ΣΑΜΑΡΕ / (L ΕΙ?)
though I'm not sure what the first line means -- I guess it's Flavia Neapolis Samaria (Date).

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?q=neapolis+lines+wreath

See especially: Volume: II №: 2223 (or Volume: II №: 2218)

Here's one at Forum with very similar portrait: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=51342

As it happens, I have a Domitian with a very similar legend (but different date at the bottom/fourth line), this one from the R.J. Plant collection, this reverse having probably been the model for the type in his 1979 Greek Coin Types book (he "fixed up" the obverse line drawing to be clearer than any actual specimen of this type!):

 

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4675035

 

Thank you. I think I bought these coins that you show today. I'll put them here later. Apparently I accidentally came across a fragment of an old collection of coins from ancient Israel. I am very happy about it. I still had to buy something there, but that’s for another time....

 

Avgustus?

 

I think that one is probably Trajan from Sephoris (similar design, different reverse legend, you can still make out the "ΣE" [SE] on the reverse):

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3937