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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3466100, member: 19463&quot;]I have answered quite a few questions here on CT and recently received help myself with a question on Parthians.&nbsp; I liked this repay concept so much I will ask another question for those of you willing to help a silly old man who bought a coin he did not understand.&nbsp; My bet is that relatively few of you have anything remotely similar.&nbsp; The coin is from the FSR auction and was sold (lot 225) as a didrachm (6.4g) of Trajan from Caesarea.&nbsp; That is obvious. The reverse is dated COS II in Greek making it earlier than most similar coins I see online. The first thing you notice i the online group is that there are many variations with different reverse persons of which many have less than certain ID.&nbsp; Frank noted that the Hera bust (as he IDed this) almost always faces left.&nbsp; That made me ask how we know this is Hera as opposed to the other options.&nbsp; What characteristics define Hera?&nbsp; Do they show on this worn coin?&nbsp; What figures were part of this series that were seen to he right?&nbsp; Can anyone show a figure of Atargatis from this series that faces left?&nbsp; What characteristics separate the goddesses?</p><p>I bought this coin despite what was described as &#039;surface quibbles&#039; that I would have called cleaning scratches that resulted in bright, hard to photograph surfaces. Not all coins of interest are beautiful and perfect.&nbsp; Online sellers have a variety of versions (mostly left facing).&nbsp; Some seem more common than others. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]921932[/ATTACH] </p><p>Side question: Does it strike anyone that the two dies on these coins may have been made in different places?&nbsp; The way the letters are cut just don&#039;t match in my eye.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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