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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4267452, member: 57463"]<font face="Georgia"></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Great article. And nice tie-in to the <i>Federalist Papers</i>. Excellent.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">In the words of Hyla Troxell: "The start of the League has often especially in numismatic circles been taken as 167 BC. This date was based not only on the obvious fact that in 167 Lycia became free, but also on the BMC's dating of the League coinage. Head in <i>Historia Numorum</i> has followed the BMC in calling 167 the start both of the coinage alld of the League itself."</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">However, the roots of the League go back 300 years, according to Trevor Bryce, who wrote: "Certainly, the network of dynastic alliances which developed in the wake of fhe Persian conquest gave the country the semblance of a relatively united and coherent political structure in the 5th and 4th centuries. But political coherence was, I believe, an artificial, Persian-inspired development, rather than a natural one, and depended for its maintenance the Persian-backed dynasts based at Xanthos."</font></p><p><br /></p><p>"Lycian League Issued Interesting Series of Coinage"</p><p><a href="http://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.09-No.11-Nov-1995.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.09-No.11-Nov-1995.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.09-No.11-Nov-1995.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4267452, member: 57463"][FONT=Georgia] Great article. And nice tie-in to the [I]Federalist Papers[/I]. Excellent. In the words of Hyla Troxell: "The start of the League has often especially in numismatic circles been taken as 167 BC. This date was based not only on the obvious fact that in 167 Lycia became free, but also on the BMC's dating of the League coinage. Head in [I]Historia Numorum[/I] has followed the BMC in calling 167 the start both of the coinage alld of the League itself." However, the roots of the League go back 300 years, according to Trevor Bryce, who wrote: "Certainly, the network of dynastic alliances which developed in the wake of fhe Persian conquest gave the country the semblance of a relatively united and coherent political structure in the 5th and 4th centuries. But political coherence was, I believe, an artificial, Persian-inspired development, rather than a natural one, and depended for its maintenance the Persian-backed dynasts based at Xanthos."[/FONT] "Lycian League Issued Interesting Series of Coinage" [URL]http://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.09-No.11-Nov-1995.pdf[/URL][/QUOTE]
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