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<p>[QUOTE="Cyrrhus, post: 2252987, member: 73882"]<font face="Arial"><font size="5"><b>Hello All,</b></font></font></p><p><b><font face="Arial"><font size="5">Just received a bunch of Colophon bronze coins some have magistrates names I have to look them up, all not the best quality, just a fun lot</font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Arial"><font size="5">some history about this place in Turkey:</font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><b>Colophon</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" rel="nofollow">/ˈkɒləfɒn/</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colophon_(city)#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colophon_(city)#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" rel="nofollow">Ancient Greek</a>: Κολοφών) was an ancient city in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionia" rel="nofollow">Ionia</a>. Founded around the turn of the first millennium BC, it was likely one of the oldest of the twelve cities of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_League" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_League" rel="nofollow">Ionian League</a>. In ancient times it was located between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebedos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebedos" rel="nofollow">Lebedos</a> (120 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadion_(unit_of_length)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadion_(unit_of_length)" rel="nofollow">stadia</a> to the west) and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus" rel="nofollow">Ephesus</a> (70 stadia to its south). Today the ruins of the city can be found south of the town Değirmendere Fev in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menderes,_%C4%B0zmir" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menderes,_%C4%B0zmir" rel="nofollow">Menderes</a> district of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmir_Province" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmir_Province" rel="nofollow">Izmir Province</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" rel="nofollow">Turkey</a>.[ATTACH=full]445971[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445972[/ATTACH] </font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Arial"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></b></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cyrrhus, post: 2252987, member: 73882"][FONT=Arial][SIZE=5][B]Hello All,[/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=5]Just received a bunch of Colophon bronze coins some have magistrates names I have to look them up, all not the best quality, just a fun lot some history about this place in Turkey: [B]Colophon[/B] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English']/ˈkɒləfɒn/[/URL];[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colophon_(city)#cite_note-1'][1][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek']Ancient Greek[/URL]: Κολοφών) was an ancient city in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionia']Ionia[/URL]. Founded around the turn of the first millennium BC, it was likely one of the oldest of the twelve cities of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_League']Ionian League[/URL]. In ancient times it was located between [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebedos']Lebedos[/URL] (120 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadion_(unit_of_length)']stadia[/URL] to the west) and[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus']Ephesus[/URL] (70 stadia to its south). Today the ruins of the city can be found south of the town Değirmendere Fev in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menderes,_%C4%B0zmir']Menderes[/URL] district of[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmir_Province']Izmir Province[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey']Turkey[/URL].[ATTACH=full]445971[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445972[/ATTACH] [/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [SIZE=6][B][/B] [B][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][B][/B][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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