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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3840337, member: 85693&quot;]Just got in an unattributed eBay bronze that I spent a couple hours trying to figure out.&nbsp; Many wrong paths, but it was fun.</p><p><br /></p><p>These Samaria, Neopolis issues with Mt. Gerizim are really interesting, although I am just starting to learn a bit about them.&nbsp; At first I thought it was Philip I.&nbsp; Then it seemed to be Trebonianus Gallus based on what I could see of the obverse legend.&nbsp; But after looking at a lot of them, I came to the conclusion it is his son Volusian (they shared the first part of the legend on these issues, making attribution a problem if the right side obverse legend is obscured).&nbsp; It is too bad the portrait has such a huge hole in his head, because otherwise, this is a very pretty green coin, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>While hunting through acsearch, I found what looks to me like a die match, especially on the reverse.&nbsp; Or maybe I&#039;ve been staring at the screen too long:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=725161" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=725161" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=725161</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to see other Mt. Gerizims.&nbsp; Or Volusion, or any &quot;good Samaritans&quot; you might have.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019344[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Volusian&nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 22</b></p><p><b>(251-253 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Samaria, Neapolis </b></p><p>AVT KAI Γ [OVI TPEBOVOΛOV]CIAN Radiate, cuirassed bust right / ΦΛ NEACΠOΛEWC</p><p>Eagle standing left, supporting Mt. Gerizim with temple, altar, stairway, colonnade below; star &amp; crescent left &amp; right above.</p><p>(11.65 grams / 22 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution / Die Match (?)</b></p><p>Gemini, LLC Auction VI Lot 742 appears to be a reverse die match (possibly obverse too).&nbsp; &quot;Harl, Museum Notes 29, 1984, pl. 14, 146 (same obverse die A33, new rev. die of same type).&nbsp; SNG ANS 1031 (same obverse die, misattributed to Treb. Gallus).</p><p>Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collect.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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