Syrian Augusta need help w/year

[Bamba123]

have a coin I started working on, I am sure it is an AUGUSTUS
Obv:KAISAPI SEBASTW APXIEPEI
Rev:APXIE / PATIKON / ANTIOXEIS within wreath. The fourth line is the problem.  Very hard to read.  In hand it seems to be SK and I know this is where they determine the year. 

(BMC 145; RPC 4259) and I am not absolutely sure of the attribution.  The coin archives coin pic is not very clear and the wildwinds coin has the last line split (5 total lines, instead of 4)

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks Jim

[Mark Farrell]

Jim,

Is your coin about 16-17 g? I presume this to be the large denomination because the reverse legend is in four lines (the medium denomination is in five lines).

As you noted the Actian year is recorded in the fourth line. These coins were minted in Antioch over a six year span of time, from Actian year 25 through 30, which corresponds to 7/6 BC - 2/1 BC. The possible Actian dates are below, all dispositions are for the large denomination only:

EK (unknown)
SK (unknown)
ZK BMC 133
HK BMC 138
  K BMC 141
  BMC 145

If your coin were truly an SK, that would be very, very special. But I suspect that it is ZK, as that is more likely. Keep cleaning and let me know how it turns out. That is a good looking coin, though. Information above from Butcher's Coinage in Roman Syria.

Mark

[Bamba123]

I can't believe I forgot to post the weight, scaled it and measured it before I posted the message.  Yes your right on the money (pardon the pun), it measures 26mm short side and 29mm long side.  Scales out at 16.0g I am going to do some very very gentle cleaning on that part of the coin, I really like this one, the obverse portrait is really nice.  I just got around to checking some of my provincials and am finding some nice ones.

Thanks for the comeback, will try to pull out the date and post it,
Thanks Jim

[Mark Farrell]

Either way, that's a heck of a nice coin to get in an uncleaned batch. Congratulations.

Mark

[Bamba123]

I did some more gentle cleaning and the date seems to be  K