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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1996835, member: 19463&quot;]I remember my first year Greek professor pointing out that there was no rule in the language that could not be overruled by a desire to make the language sound better.&nbsp; This is called euphonics.&nbsp; I do not know where the city got its name but you can not say AGCHIALUS without twisting a tonsil.&nbsp; German would have no problem with the concept but Greek went from G to NG to N in the sound and we coin collectors have to deal with it.&nbsp; Also remember that standard practice was to put the genitive plural on the reverse of such coins so the reverse legend reads &quot;of the Anchialians&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#039;t feel bad if you do not find an exact match.&nbsp; I doubt there are many of them surviving (but more than collectors dying to own one, unfortunately).&nbsp;&nbsp; See a similar but different coin:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=725046" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=725046" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=725046</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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