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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2528570, member: 57495&quot;]Thanks, and what a fun group... I see them all as a mix of interesting and attractive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I disappoint myself by having coins from only one of those cities.&nbsp; I&#039;ve three from Kolophon, but none are Apollo/horseman, even though they all feature Apollo.&nbsp; On the coin below, he&#039;s paired with Homer (the city was one of several who claimed that the poet was born there).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]540150[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>IONIA, Kolophon</b></p><p>AE19. 4.28g, 19.4mm, IONIA, Kolophon, circa 50 BC, Apollas, magistrate.&nbsp; SNG Cop 184; Milne, Colophon 178.&nbsp; O: AΠOΛΛAΣ, Homer enthroned, resting chin on right hand, in left hand holding a volume on his knee.&nbsp; R: ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ, Apollo standing right, phiale in right, lyre in left.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin from any of the Odrysian kings is on my want list, as is one of those from Komana (Komama? Konana? I&#039;ve seen all those spellings for this city).&nbsp; I really like the Eumeneia as well, but my favorite of this group is the Kentoripai... what a great coin and type!&nbsp; HGC Sicily (current scholarship?) dates yours and two other value-marked denominations to the 2nd century BC, and suggests that based on weight, they were struck &quot;<i>on the declining Roman uncial standard (c. 27.6g to the as)</i>&quot;.&nbsp; They call yours a sextans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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