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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4250447, member: 99456&quot;][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] - an interesting coin of Flaviopolis and the double die match a nice find!&nbsp; It seems Flavians named a few towns after their family: here a reference from Pliny to another Flaviopolis (if my geography is not off - this one much further north, with a story of Tereus and Procne and the swallow&#039;s mournful song):</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">We next come to the rivers Bathynias and Pydaras, or Athyras, and the towns of Selymbria and Perinthus, which join the mainland by a neck only 200 feet in width. In the interior are Bizya, a citadel of the kings of Thrace, and hated by the swallows, in consequence of the sacrilegious crime of Tereus; the district called Cænica, and the colony of <b>Flaviopolis</b>, where formerly stood a town called Cæla.</font></p><p><font size="3">- <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D4%3Achapter%3D18#note-link61" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D4%3Achapter%3D18#note-link61" rel="nofollow">Pliny, Natural History 4.18.5</a></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>and a small obol from Cilicia - the city of Soli (also called Pompeiopolis on your map) - ~200 miles away on the southern coast, and ~400 years earlier with grapes (in place of Dionysus):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1084484[/ATTACH]<b>CILICIA, Soloi</b>, Circa 350-330 BC, AR Obol</p><p><b>Size:</b> 9.8mm, 0.53g</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet</p><p><b>Rev: </b> ΣOΛEΩN Bunch of grapes on stalk with leaf and tendrils, AΠ left of grapes[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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