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I have a dated pseudo-antonomous one in similar size, but the date is illegible, what legend is visible doesn't match anything on RPC, and the closest comparisons are from the reign of Antoninus Pius rather than Hadrian.
It turns out, after a further search, that I actually did apparently miss the appropriate RPC entry...

Syria,
Antioch ad Orontem Hierapolis (?), civic issue, 2nd century AD
Bust of Apollo (?) right / lyre, A above, ETO (retrograde) and date (not sure which) below
11 mm, 1.32 grams
probably
RPC IV.3 8544 var (unlisted retrograde)
[but cf
RPC IV.3 7199 with very similar design]
If my new attribution is correct, it's dated in the Seleucid and not Caesarean era, as well. Still a neat little coin, though.
Edited by january1may
03/13/2025 7:43 pm