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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 8081647, member: 44316&quot;]Eleutheria = Freedom, or, as [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER] wrote, &quot;independence&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know about Greek coins, but there are coins of the Roman provincial period at Cherson (in Crimea, in the north Black Sea) that explicitly mention &quot;EΛEVΘEPAC&quot; [freedom] with the &quot;AC&quot; in exergue and the name of the mint city &quot;XEPCONH...&quot; with Artemis spearing a stag.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403341[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>22-19 mm. 5.21 grams.</p><p>Anokhin <i>Cherson</i> 293. Attributed to near the time of Caracalla (without much evidence)</p><p>Anokhin gives weights but one problem with his books is the photos are often not to scale (10-15% larger is common and life size is common, but they are never distinguished) , so it is hard to be sure of the diameters (which are not explicitly given). His 293 is illustrated at 18 mm and said to be 3.55 grams. Mine is significantly larger--possibly a double of his denomination? </p><p><br /></p><p>Cherson received its &quot;freedom&quot; (liberty) under Antoninus Pius according to the Anokhin translation by H. Bartlett Wells (p. 77).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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