It's a coin from
Antioch,
Pisidia.
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Possible emperors are
Valerian I,
Trajan Decius, Aemilianus,
Gallienus and probably more.
I can't even guess which it is.
The problem with this is not so much the fact that it's Greek but more that the lettering is kind of sloppy,
I
had the same problems with
Roman imperials if they were in less than perfect condition.
It helps to know what to expect, I have a buch of coins that are not that bad where I can
stillmake no sense of the
inscription. It's usually much easier to go by the
reverse depiction, 'eagle and standard' gives you a long list on
Coinarchives that you have to
work through. What I find annoying about looking up
Provincials on CA is that 'eagle and
standard and bronze' will not
work, because none of those coins have the word 'bronze' in the description and there are usually no names for
denominations.
So what I usually do if I have no idea about a coin is to start with, e.g. 'eagle and standard' and narrow it down, depending on how many results I get, using the NOT operator ('eagle and
standard not
aureus not denar ...'). It's not very elegant and once I reach about 500 results I just go through them quickly, even with my rather slow DSL connection it's not too bad.
Andreas
