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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8212056, member: 85693&quot;]Never heard of Zeus Kasios, that&#039;s for sure.&nbsp; A recent eBay lot came up with a stone-in-a-temple type, which I&#039;ve been hankering for since seeing them on Coin Talk over the years.&nbsp; I figured it was Elagabalus and the Emesa stone he brought to Rome.&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; It is the stone of Zeus Kasios, and everything I know about this topic comes from this wonderful post by [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] (thank you!).&nbsp; It is such an informative post, I thought I&#039;d revive it.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were issued for Trajan with a date range, and apparently in two denominations (I will call them &quot;big&quot; and &quot;small&quot;).&nbsp; Most of them, like mine are big.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine unfortunately has most of the date off the flan - although I can just barely make out the point of what looks like a Delta.&nbsp; Further reinforcing my attribution/guess is that I found what I think might be two obverse die-matches, including the OP here.&nbsp; Maybe.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440945[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><b>Trajan&nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 23</b></b></p><p><b><b>RY 4 (100/101 A.D.) (See note)</b></b></p><p><b><b>Syria, Seleukis and Pieria</b></b></p><p>A[VTOKP] KAIC NEP TPAIANO[C APICT CEB] ΓEPM ΔA]K, laureate head right / CELEVK[EΩ]N - ΠΙΕΡΙΑϹ sacred stone of Zeus Kasios in shrine surmounted by eagle, Δ (?) in right field, ZEVC | KACI[OC] in exergue.</p><p>eBay Jan. 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><b>Attribution: </b></p><p>(10.46 grams / 23 x 21 mm)</p><p>RPC III 3771; BMC 39 and 43; CRS 420/55a and 59a.</p><p>Date is mostly missing, but point of Δ might be visible; 2 die obv. die matches are Δ.</p><p><b>Obv. die matches:</b></p><p>Jochen1 on Coin Talk (04/2019)</p><p>moonmoth on FORVM (2009)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my obverse with the [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] obverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440946[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my obverse with the FORVM example (maybe not a die match, but a kind of &quot;style match&quot; perhaps):</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/coins/trajan_032.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/coins/trajan_032.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/coins/trajan_032.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440947[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I realize reverse dies (with the date) and obverse dies come in lots of combinations, so I feel this is just a die match guess.&nbsp; From what I could see from online examples, the style on these was all over the place.&nbsp; RPC has many examples here:</p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=&amp;number=&amp;city_id=773&amp;region_id=&amp;province_id=&amp;subprovince_id=&amp;reign_id=51&amp;date_min=%E2%80%A6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=&amp;number=&amp;city_id=773&amp;region_id=&amp;province_id=&amp;subprovince_id=&amp;reign_id=51&amp;date_min=%E2%80%A6" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=&amp;number=&amp;city_id=773&amp;region_id=&amp;province_id=&amp;subprovince_id=&amp;reign_id=51&amp;date_min=…</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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