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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2317959, member: 42773"]Where is Phalanna? From the Princeton Encyclopedia... PHALANNA Thessaly, Greece.  The chief city of the Perrhaibians in the region. Phalanna flourished in the 5th and 4th c., replacing Olosson in importance by 400 B.C.; although later outstripped by Gonnos, it was still useful to Perseus as a camp site in 171 B.C. Inscriptions indicate that the city records were kept in the Temple of Athena Polias, although the city decrees were dated by the tenures of the priests of Asklepios. There was also a theater and a Sanctuary of Hades and Persephone. The site, misleadingly described by Strabo as near Tempe, has not been certainly identified, but lay between Orthe and Gonnos in a position to control the roads from the N and the rich fields to the S. Although Karatsoli and Gritzova have been proposed, Phalanna was probably on the flat hill called Kastri 3 km E of modern Tyrnavos; there are building blocks scattered in the area, but no city walls. This is not a type I was familiar with before the show, but it sure is a lovely coin with a deep green patina. The obverse gets described as "male head right." The reverse is ΦΑΛΑΝΝΑΙΩΝ, Head of nymph Phalanna right, hair in sakkos, struck 400-344 BC... [ATTACH=full]468028[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]