ID Help Please | Antioch-On-The-Meander

Pictures are too burly to see much of this coin. Need better pictures.

Thanks Sap and Echizento.

If you suspect coin is counterfeit dont worry because I've cleaned it with my own hands. And it is not alone I have got 3 coin with it same period and city.






in order of this coins 32,46g 21,73g 12,92g 28,14g

I will try to send a better picture

hi again
I finally was able to add large photos
Photos are here. 8 pictures, about 30 megabytes

sorry for late and thanks again.

It is .rar format and you need a program (like ''Winrar'').
I have used it why combine the images in a single file and single link.
I want to add here but images are larger than 90 KB.

I've uploaded separately I hope you can see now. If you experience a problem about links, I can correct it again

Image 1 (3,24 MB)
Image 2 (3,02 MB)
Image 3 (3,97 MB)
Image 4 (4,39 MB)
Image 5 (3,91 MB)
Image 6 (4,03 MB)
Image 7 (3,47 MB)
Image 8 (3,56 MB)

Thanks, wheatiefan. I tried it too, but my 5 year old computer kept crashing trying to look at those huge pics.

Now, back to the coins. "Pic numbers" I give below are in order of wheatiefan's post.

Unfortunately, the pics are all jumbled up. But using the pics in byzantine's second post, I think I can un-jumble them.
The coin with the legends the same as depicted in the OP is the one in pic #1 and pic #6. The obverse legend ends in "OVALERIANOC", not "OVALERIMOC", confirmig this coin is indeed of Valerian. Double-checking the Sear catalogue, I find this coin type is indeed listed there for this emperor; number 4457, the reference given there is "BMC 18. 23, 56".

Another coin of a similar type is pic #4 and pic #7: the obverse inscription on this one is AVT K TRAIANOC DEKIOC, Trajan Decius, so this is pretty much the same type as the one I linked to above of that emperor.

The third "Meander River Bridge" type is shown in pic #5 and pic #8. The obverse is too corroded to read the legend, but the obverse type, of a helmeted emperor with spear and shield, is an exact match for the one pictured in Sear that I mentioned earlier, of emperor Gallienus, and presumably a match for the Gallienus one on the ANS database I linked to earlier. As I said earlier, this one too is in Sear, No. 4568, reference given is "Von Aulock 2431".

The fourth coin (pics #2 and #3) is of a different reverse type, depicting a table with a "prize urn" on it. The obverse legend isn't too clear, but I can read "...LLIHN..." - so it must be Gallienus, too. I'm not sure, however, that it's from this same city, but if they were acquired as a group from the same source, it doesn't sound unreasonable.

Finally, as to authenticity: I don't really see anything that should condemn these coins as fakes. Yes, they look "bubbly", but to me it's more "corrosion-bubbly" than "cast-bubbly".

I hope this helps.

I don't know if it's been published online; the university where I work has a copy of most of the BMC volumes, but I won't be going back to work for a month now.