Pontos Aegis, Need help with city

[Blayne W]

Bought a lot of Pontos coins that included this one.  It is 21.7mm 6.6g.

Although tough to see I dont think it falls in to the typical Amisus, Pontos.  I am leaning to it being from KOMANA based on what inscription I can see in the right field of the obverse. 

To me it looks like a NA or a M, though looking at the possible options for inscriptions I think Komana is the closest.  Am I missing another city?  There arn't many Komana ones in the gallery or on wildwinds to compare to.  I think I do have another one in my lot, which looks closer to the ΝΩ that should start the inscription in the right field..  That one I have included as the second picture.  Looking on acsearch they all seem to be closer to my second one.  The problem coins inscription just seems to not match.

Thank you for your opinions.

Blayne

[Altamura]

Perhaps the M or whatever it is does not belong to a city's name but is one of the monograms below, similar to here: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5388474
If you compare the position of the M relative to the legs of Nike then it is positioned quite low, the ethnikon is mostly further up.

Here are some more to look for a match:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=%28pontos+paphlagonia%29+%28aigis+aegis%29+nike+&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=1&currency=usd&company=

Regards

Altamura

[Blayne W]

I did wonder about it being a monogram.  It didnt seem to match with any that I could see in A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia.  Though I assume that doesnt have all the monograms.  Ill scroll through the Acsearch link you provided to see if anything looks similar.

Also thank you very much, I have had trouble searching on acsearch and am usually limited to one term.  I didnt know the other formats to eliminate or narrow down a search.  Now that you opened my eyes- I see the how to instructions    That would have helped me a lot in the past, but glad I know it now

Thanks

Blayne