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Nice find, never seen before. Even Roscher doesn't mention a Men with trident.

Jochen

They are the same group of coins. I think 3/4 is the same coin and was my coin as well. However, because I can't be sure, I have returned it to the dealer. They still haven't taken down the other copy in their current auction. If you made a fake coin report, I think that's probably enough. My coin may have been the original as the cracks were much larger on my coin and the level of detail better than the other coins. So I'm not going to make a fake coin report for mine (as I'm not sure).

 

Q.

Dear cf,

Here a rare and unique piece, i see a trident, however i can not find a trident, combined with Phrygia Mên
a nice link on the reverse, holding a double axe (Bipennis)


http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1396/


2360 PHRYGIA, Hydrela Hadrian, Mên riding
Reference.
RPC III, 2360; = R. Pace, ‘Una moneta inedita di Hydrela’, Panorama Numismatico 112/97, pp. 18-9.

Magistrate   Apellas Athènagorou

Obv.   ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟС ΟΛΥΜΠΙΟС
Laureate head of Hadrian, right

Rev.   ΑΠΕΛΛΑС ΑΘΗΝΑΓΟΡΟΥ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ ΥΔΡΗΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Mên riding r., holding trident over l. shoulder.

10.52 gr
25 mm

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-151056

This coin offered by the same seller is a copy, too.

It is supposed to be by P. Maenius Antiaticus, Crawford 249/1.

I marked the pit holes. Again, the obverse bears no unambiguous traces of forgery.

It is only the reverse which allows us to pass our deplorable verdict.

Thank you, Steve,

Sorry the late replay, I left for a few days, because of my job,...

Regards

 Q.

[almost perfect model]

Here the evidence that this coin supposed to be by Q. Fabius Maximus (Crawford 265/1) is a fake:

Encircled in red: cast pits.

What is striking is the obverse: It bears no significant evidence of this coin being a cast at first sight, which makes this fake quite dangerous in my eyes.

Encircled in green: smut resembling patina, suggesting ancient origin.

It becomes evident that the forger used an almost perfect model to make his cast, making it very attractive at first sight, apart from the scratches and copied "signs of usage" suggesting authenticity.

#048

A new type for Nikopolis

Pseudo-autonomous coinage, 1.-3. century AD
AE 13, 0.98g
obv. Female figure stg, frontal, looking l., resting with raised l. hand on long sceptre and
       holding in extended r. hand unknown object (Vesta holding palladium ?)
rev. Crescent with 3 stars
ref. a) not in AMNG
      b) not in Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov (2018):
          cf. No. 8(?).0.48.19 (Homonoia)
very rare
coll. Ardatirion, Forum Ancient Coins

Best regards

Thats it
I can see part of B and VCA

Thank you a lot

#047

A new die combination for Elagabal

Elagabal, AD 218-222
AE 26, 10.00g
struck under governor Novius Rufus
obv. [AVT K M AVRH - ANTW]NEINOC
       Bust, draped and cuirassed, seen from behind, laureate, r.
rev. VP [NOBIOV ROVFOV] NIKOPOLITWN PROC I   
       Asklepios, in himation, stg. frontal, looking l., resting with r. hand on snake staff set in
       armpit and holding l. arm at hip
ref. a) not in AMNG:
          cf. AMNG I/1,1935 (for the type only)
      b) not in Varbanov
      c) not in Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov (2018):
          rev. No. 8.26.20.5 (same die)
          obv. e.g. No. 8.26.3.3 (same die)
coll. Charles M, Forum Ancient Coins

Best regards