Since English ed.
Varbanov numbers are of no use without a secondary
ref., either to the
Bulgarian ed. or to the catalogues from which they may have come, I
had better report what I found in the meantime, using the
collection catalogue from several years ago of a
Gordian collector who sent it to me.
First, it has to be
Hadrianopolis, for the reasons
Curtis gives. They mix-link the dies quite a
bit, and Mark's specimen is itself more mucked up on the
obverse than it looks at first glance, with some confusion above the
head, but the laurel ties and the drapery are
Hadrianopolis.
Second, the dominant
reverse die has to be the Demeter that my friend identified as
Jurukova 577. Unfortunately, the 3rd-generation photocopy of
Jurukova is not decisive, but
his judgment usually is excellent, not least where dies are concerned.
Third, the die link of the
obv. with this dominant
reverse die does seem to be different.
I am e-mailing the link to this
thread to him for
his consideration, since he might have
his actual coin in hand.
Though any
patera or grain was destroyed by the second blow, I say that the dominant
reverse type must be, after all, Demeter, because the
Gordian catalogue's no 236 is a Demeter, and the righhand
side of the
reverse type (the drapery falls and the
scepter or torch--it looks like a
scepter) and, above all, the end of the
legend, letter for letter, space for space,
O
E I T : (with the omega-nu in the
exergue) seems to match only the Demeter,
head to r., which does have ears of grain.
Pat L.