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Message:: [QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3274075, member: 80804"]The reason I brought up Provincial Roman coins in my original comment was not (as people seem to think) to conflate Roman Provincial coinage with Greek (although a pretty strong case could be made that the definition is at least a very gray area). It was because there is a fairly accurate and well-known count of Provincial coinage issuing cities and authorities (~600+). What I tried to say (and thought I did say) was that if so many places were still coining in the Roman era, how many more Greek coin source-places there must have been in the pre-Roman period when the Greek city states were basically a large and non-homogeneous collection of un-associated, relatively small towns and villages planted in any and every possible geographically separated location - and generally at each others throats most of the time. As for the "C" vs. "K" thing, again, someone is confusing Roman and Greek usages. The Latin alphabet did not have a letter "K" in antiquity and so used "C" exclusively for the K and occasionally as a hard G sound (Caius/Gaius), never, ever as an "S" as in our scrambled English usages where you have "cat" vs "ice", etc. - eg: In Latin pronunciation: Ioo-lee-us Kai-sar. In Greek, "C" (the "lunate sigma") is always valued as an "S". So in going about creating an exclusively Greek roster of coinage cities, you have started right off using Latin spellings - IOW, you have already gone way off course on the third letter of the alphabet by confusing Latin spellings beginning with C's of Greek cities which in Greek should be either "K's" or "Σ's" (S's) depending on the sound intended.If you really want το create a roster of Greek cities (and are ambivalent about or opposed to including Roman references), don't you think you would have done better to begin your alphabetical list of purely Greek cities using the Greek alphabet? Α, Β, Γ, Δ, Ε (or Є), Ζ, Η, Θ, Ι, Κ, Λ, Μ, Ν, Ξ, Ο, Π, Ρ, Σ (or C), T, Y (or V) Φ, Χ, Ψ, Ω.[/QUOTE]

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