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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 7482727, member: 82322&quot;]Sometimes both sides of the coin show a different monster.&nbsp; Another &quot;Klazomenai&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294697[/ATTACH]</p><p>AR Obol.&nbsp; 8mm, 0.58 g.&nbsp; Classical Numismatic Group, e-Auction 148, September 2006, lot 162 (David Herman collection)</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Klazomenai&quot; in quotes because winged boar coins are known for Klazomenai, Mytilene, Kyzikos, Ialysos/Rhodes, Carian Chersonesos, Kisthene (satrapal), Lycia (dynastic).&nbsp; There are no die links between the boar/gorgon coinage and any boar coinage with the letter K.&nbsp; There are no documented findspots for the boar/gorgon coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Barclay Head said “The distinctive badge of the city appears from the later inscribed coins to have been a winged boar; cf. Aelian (<i>De Natura Animalium,</i> xii. 38), who relates, on the authority of Artemon, that such a monster once infested the Clazomenian territory.” Head himself is unsure of the attribution, writing “These … coins can be only conjecturally attributed to Clazomenae.”</p><p><br /></p><p>All the cities using the winged boar have a similar-looking boar, which makes me doubt that that the coins of Klazomenai depict the specific boar Aelian wrote about.</p><p><br /></p><p>Klazomenai was originally located on the mainland, but probably during the early fifth-century BC Ionian Revolt from the Persians, moved to the Karantina Island just off the coast. Alexander the Great eventually connected Karantina island to the mainland with a causeway, the remains of which are still visible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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