greek roman gordianos ne okoron? Ae21

[Pim San]

Hoi,

I tried to identify this coin, but i'm stuck. It's a ae21. It could be Gordianus III but I'm not sure.
The front shows a portret with ....IANOCKAI?
The backside shows artemis with e long torch and reads ......NE OKOP..
It's 21mm and weights 4.42gms

The coin resembles a bit like the coins form ephesos, for exeample: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4410713. Maybe this helps. I couldn't find an example wich matched this one. :-)
Any help is appreciated,

Thanks in advance

[Tom Mullally]

I think you're probably right that it's from Ephesus.  With the obverse legend I can read it should be either Gordian III or Trajan Decius, but most likely Gordian (Decius would have a longer legend).  That said, I don't see this type listed in Karwise for either emperor.  There is this reverse type facing left for Trajan Decius but I really think this is Gordian III.  Probably an unlisted type.  You might want to try to take better photos and send it to RPC and see what they say.

Tom

[Pim San]

Dear Tom,

A mail with the identification from RPC landed in my spambox. Since yesterday I know exactly which emperor it is. RPC (mister Burnett) wrote:
"It is indeed of Ephesus, for the emperor Valerian. Like all the coins of the smaller denomination, it’s quite rare, but the same as BMC 356 or Weber 5890. I don’t know if you know S. Karwiese’s book on Ephesus, but, if so, it is as no. 1045 in his (difficult to use) catalogue.

I have added it to the RPC X database – which if all goes well, we hope to release online later this year." Many thanks go to mister Burnett from RPC and his good work.
A pitty my email is working that bad. I'm warned for the next time.

I thinks the identification is now complete, thanks to all 

Yours
Svir

 

[Tom Mullally]

Now that you mention Valerian, it's easy to read!  I'm glad you got it identified.

Tom