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Message:: [QUOTE="Ignoramus Maximus, post: 4829732, member: 104741"]Coin and map in one:[ATTACH=full]1168150[/ATTACH]Ionia, Achaemenid period, uncertain Satrap ca. 350-334 BC. 13mm, 2,06 gr.Obv: Persian king in kneeling/running stance holding spear and bow, c/m sun.Rev: Irregular incuse in the form of a map of the hinterland of Ephesos. (?)  From CNG on the type: 'Johnston has interpreted this remarkable reverse design as a relief map of the hinterland of Ephesos, which would make it the earliest Greek map and first physical relief map known. On the right (north) are the mountains Tmolos and Messogis between the river valleys of the Caÿster and Maeander, to the left of which are three mountain ridges (Madranbaba Dagi, Karincali Dagi, and Akaba Tepesi). Johnston follows Six in suggesting that the coins were probably struck under the Persian general Memnon at Ephesos, circa 336-334 BC, in order to pay his army after he had captured the city, but before his defeat by Alexander at the Battle of Granicus in 334. However, Johnston’s theory has been the subject of some doubt, most recently by Leo Mildenberg'. To 'read' the map the pic of the reverse should be turned 90 degrees counterclockwise. (Oops...my bad<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) Next: more maps[/QUOTE]