Dear Ancientboy and Board,
The
obverse is die-linked to these two bronzes of Acrasus, struck under
Commodus:
http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1164/http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb417829818/PUBLICThis doesn't necessarily mean the coin was issued for this city, however, so I decided to browse through the plates in
Kraft, but without finding even the above two coins (although they could be mentioned in the text). Even so, on Tafel 87, there are several bronzes, minted for Lydian and Mysian mints, with very similar
portraits of
Commodus, some possibly by the same hand as the piece under study. So it is possible the
Commodus die we are interested in was shared by Acrasus and one or more other mints (e.g. Silandus,
Thyatira, Adramyteum, Attaea, etc.).
Then again, a look on
RPC IV Online and under several cities in Münsterberg did not turn up any matches for the name of the magistrate on the mystery coin's
reverse. I think I can read ЄΠΙ CΤΡΑ ΑΥΡΗ [...] and then presumably the
ethnic in the
exergue which is frustrating to read (Κ[?]Ν[?]ΤΩΝ)! It is worth keeping in mind that the
ethnic may actually begin around the coin's
rim and end in the
exergue.
Hopefully this will give you and others a push in the right direction.
Best regards,
Mark Fox
Michigan