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Can You Help Me Identify 2 Coins

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 Posted 11/14/2018  6:01 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add sgeneina to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
still can't identify those coins. appreciate your help.
coin 1 9.9 gm & 25 mm
coin 2 11.9 gm & 24 mm


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 Posted 11/15/2018  6:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The top one doesn;t have enough legible text for me to help much, and lots of cities issued "legionary standards" types.

But the lower one is easier: it's a Roman Provincial. Around the reverse, the legend begins "COL AVR PIA" - which seems to be unique to the city of Sidon, Phoenicia (now in Lebanon). The inscription within the wreath reads "CERT SAC PER OECVME ISELA", which is Latin and (according to an old coin book I found on Google Books) expands to "certamina sacra periodica oecumenica iselastica", which Google Translate tells me translates to something like "triumphant in the periodic Council Sacred Games". I would assume these coins would have been tossed to the crowd either at the Games or in processional activities related to the Games.

Roman emperor Elagabalus was from that part of the world and spent a lot of money on festivals and events in the province of Syria, in honour of the cult-god El-Gabaal he revered. I assume this is one of his coins and these "periodic Council Sacred Games" were presumably one such festival.
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Nice write up Sap. And nice find OP.
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 Posted 11/16/2018  4:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sgeneina to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
thanks a lot for the great effort and info. . I will try to further identify them as I have 3 coins of each with different emperors.
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I would guess the top one would be Julia Mamaea (hair style) she also issued reverse types with standards.
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