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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7843496, member: 118780&quot;](two disclaimers before I post: 1) I don&#039;t speak Greek and 2) you know a lot more about ancients than I)</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know when the convention started, but I can make the following observations from coins I know (and in fact are heading my way).</p><p>1) Coins of Uranopolis (300-290 BCE) use ΟΥΡΑΝΙΔΩΠΟΛΕΩΣ</p><p>2) Coins of Philippoi (356-345 BCE) use ΦΙΛΙΠΠΩΝ</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d be curious to know myself the first coins to spell out the city name. Many of the earlier Greek coins I&#039;m familiar with have the name of the magistrate instead of the city.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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