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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 7470493, member: 85693&quot;]Unique?&nbsp; Maybe?&nbsp; Sorry to keep posting this, buy I am obsessed; spent the last hour or so puzzling over it.&nbsp; I cannot find a match, but I am pretty sure I have the city right. </p><p><br /></p><p>It would please me immensely if somebody else had something like this and mine wasn&#039;t unique - I don&#039;t know enough to claim &quot;unique.&quot;&nbsp; But I&#039;ve ransacked RPC, acsearch, Wildwinds, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293653[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293654[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Synnada, Phyrgia&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ 11</b></p><p><b>Semi-Autonomous Issue.</b></p><p><b>(c. 100 - 200 A.D.)</b></p><p>Herakles Thynnaros (?) draped bust right with taiana, sceptre or thyrsus over shoulder (?)&nbsp; / CYNN [AΔEΩN], Artemis standing right drawing arrow from quiver (?) or Athena with spear (?).</p><p>(1.94 grams / 11 mm)</p><p>eBay April 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lot @ $1.24</p><p><b>Attribution Notes:&nbsp; </b>Unlisted type for Synnada? Reverse inscription and other coins from that place support this attribution.&nbsp; But what do I know?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some new heroes I learned about while researching this - from German Wikipedia (with Google translate): </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p>&quot;Thynnaros ( Greek Θύνναρος ) is in Greek mythology the founding hero of the Phrygian city Synnada, whose name has only been preserved on coins . It is not passed down in literary documents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thynnaros can be identified on two coins by the legend ΘΥΝΝΑΡΟΣ, a third coin assigned to him has no inscription and is more likely to be assigned to Heracles. All three coins date from the period between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD and are quasi-autonomous coins , i.e. coins of little value, as they do not refer to the Roman emperor either through the coin image or the legend. He is depicted with long hair and a beard, on one of the coins he wears a taenia . The reverse of one of the coins depicts the goddess Isis , the other an owl sitting on an amphora. Since other poleis in the myth can also be traced back to two founders, there is no contradiction in this. An inscription was found in Synnada, in which Thynaridai is mentioned, whether it is a reference to a cult of Thynnaros is unclear. In the assumption of a cult community of this name, Thynnaros was also interpreted as a deity. Thynnaros can be identified on two coins by the In addition to Thynnaros, there are also images of Akamas on coins from Synnada, the type of both depictions indicates founding heroes.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thynnaros" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thynnaros" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thynnaros</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>The article is illustrated with two coins, one of which has an obverse a lot like mine: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293657[/ATTACH]</p><p>This Thynnaros hero needs a write-up by [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER]&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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