Background information
The obverse of the coin shown depicts neither the emperor nor a member of his family on the obverse but the Demos (the personification of the People of the city). It is thus a ‘pseudo-autonomous’ coin. The reverse shows Artemis. As in the previous tutorial the most appropriate search to identify the coin is the “Identification search”.
Searching the database
Select menu “Coin Database”
Choose the second option called “Identification search”
Press the “List” button next to “Obverse design” in order to get a list of common obverse designs
Tick the box next to “‘Pseudo-autonomous’: ANY”, which is the last entry on that list and press the “Continue” button.
Enter “Artemis” into the “Reverse design” search field
Press the “Search” button
The search should return many matching coin types. (By default, only coin types are shown for which there are images in the database.)
The “Identification search” form is re-shown alongside the search results. This setup has been chosen to allow for an easy modification of the search criteria.
To reduce the number of positive results, press the “List” button belonging to the “Obverse design” search field. Untick the box next to “‘Pseudo-autonomous’: ANY” and tick the box next to “‘Pseudo-autonomous’: Demos”.
Press the “Continue” button
Press the “List” button belonging to the “Reverse design” search field. Scroll down the list and tick the box next to “Artemis, standing/advancing”.
Press the “Continue” button
Press the “Search” button
The search should return all coin types (with images only) that display the Demos on the obverse and a standing or advancing Artemis on the reverse. Among the small number of coin types found you should be able to locate the coin we are currently looking for. It belongs to temporary type 1987 and was issued by the city of Eucarpia in the Roman province of Asia (conventus of Apamea).
In order to see the detailed record of this coin type, including inscriptions, references and individual specimens, either click on the coin image or on the (hyperlinked) temporary number, here “1987”.
Further comments
For coin type number 1987 the database contains two specimens with an image. This offers the opportunity to try the “All specimen images” view (using the link after the coin image in the detailed view) — making it possible to compare specimens 2 and 3 of this type directly with each other.
If you are interested in the geographical location of a city like Eucarpia use the menu item “Maps”. The Flash version of the maps is interactive: clicking on a particular city will search for the coins of that city using the “Identification search”.
You can hold on to a selected coin type for the duration of your session by transferring it into the “Purse”.