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Offline Kieran M

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Any help identifying would be awesome
« on: September 23, 2021, 11:26:46 pm »
Also got this in a group of coins. I really don't know how to identify a fake but this coin just seemed different to me alot of pitting and very round.  28mm and 18.45 g

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Re: Any help identifying would be awesome
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2021, 11:57:25 pm »
Looks fine to me, just harshly cleanedRoman provincial, probably Tyche on the reverse.  I don't collect these but looks like 2nd-3rd century to me... Maximinus?

  Someone will chime in I'm sure.

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Re: Any help identifying would be awesome
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2021, 12:40:22 am »
Good morning all of you!

I think it is NOT Maximus, Philippus I is in my opinion the solution

A) AVTOK K MA IOVΛ ΦIΛIΠIIOC CEB
Draped and laureated bust right
R) ANTIOXN MHTPO KOΛΩ   
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Towered, veiled bust of Tyche right, (ram over her head)

Reference: SEAR/3959; McAlee page342/967 ff

Struck: ANTIOCHIA  //  SELEUCIA AD PIERIA  //  SYRIA

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Re: Any help identifying would be awesome
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2021, 07:19:54 am »
Looks more like Philip II to me.

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Re: Any help identifying would be awesome
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2021, 05:28:32 pm »
Definitely a Philip at Antioch.  I don't know the type - and there ar a large number of bust variations - well enough to known if it is Philip I or II and the end part of the legend seems to be worn away.

I don't think it is a cast.  I agree with Jay - looks to be harshly cleaned with pitting from corrosion - perhaps exacerbated by cleaning.  This type was struck on remarkably round high quality flans.

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