Ah, well that's the problem with these tiny, often heavily worn,
dichalkon coins. To make it more difficult, the obverses are
anepigraphic (no
legend!) and the
reverse dies sometimes fairly crude (the die engravers
had very little space to
work with, and so the simpler designs are often more successful than the more detailed ones). Plus: These coins seem to have been copied outside
Egypt, and thousands of rough "minima" have been found, for instance, in the dunes at Caesareia Maritima in
Judaea.
Sometimes you have to go on probabilities, when you can't with 100% certainty pin down the ruler,
mint, year or
reverse type of a badly worn coin.
Francis
