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Message:: [QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2148315, member: 57495"]Two from Troas: GARGARA[ATTACH=full]411828[/ATTACH]TROAS, GargaraCirca 350 BCAE90.62g, 9.1mmBMC p. 53, 14; SNG Cop 330.  O: Laureate head of Apollo right.  R: Horse trotting right; ΓΑΡ above, bunch of grapes below.Notes: Gargara was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Troad region of Anatolia. It was initially located beneath Mount Gargaron, one of the three peaks of Mount Ida, today known as Koca Kaya. The poet Aratus of Soli wrote an epigram about his friend Diotimos, who used to teach the children of Gargara on Mount Gargaron:"I bewail Diotimos, who would sit among the rocksTeaching the children of the Gargarians their alpha and beta." GERGIS[ATTACH=full]411829[/ATTACH]TROAS, GergisCirca 350 - 241 BCAE163.58g, 16.3mmSNG Cop. 339-340 var (rev monogram); BMC Troas p. 55, 5-6  var (same).O: Three-quarter facing head of Sibyl Herophile turned slightly right, wearing laurel wreath and pendanted necklace.  R: Sphinx seated right, GER to right, KE monogram (Kebren?) to left, [grain ear] in exergue.Notes: Sibyls were prophetesses in ancient Greece who were often sought out for their gift of prophecy.  Herophile was the most famous of the four Sibyls named by Pausanias.  Her sibylline collection, as well as tomb, was supposedly located at the temple of Apollo at Gergis.  The KE monogram on this coin suggests a monetary alliance or symmachy with the nearby town of Kebren.[/QUOTE]