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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2817908, member: 82322&quot;]<b>Iconium</b> has already been posted but I wanted to show this one.&nbsp; On this example the city is operating under the temporary name Claudiconium (spelled with a K in Greek, but after Claudius) thus this should qualify as both an I, a C, and a K for our alphabetic purposes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]660954[/ATTACH] </p><p>LYCAONIA. Iconium (as Claudiconium). Hadrian (117-138 AD). AE. Weight: 2.36 g. Diameter: 17 mm.</p><p>Obv: ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟС ΚΑΙСΑΡ. Bare head left.</p><p>Rev: ΚΛΑΥΔЄΙΚΟΝΙЄωΝ. Perseus standing facing, head right, holding harpa and severed head of Medusa.</p><p>RPC III <a href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2825/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/2825/" rel="nofollow">2825</a> (this coin is the exemplar!); SNG France 2286 = Waddington 4767.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note: The heroic from-the-back bust of Hadrian is surprising. Note that two earlier coins of Iconium feature a bust of Perseus depicted similarly from the back. Hadrian has been rendered in the same pose as the city founder!&nbsp; He raised Iconium to the status of a Roman Colony about 130 AD.&nbsp; Perhaps that is why he is portrayed this way.</p><p><br /></p><p>The name &quot;Iconium&quot; comes from the icon or image of the gorgon&#039;s head.&nbsp; The 12th century medieval writer Eustathius of Thessalonica records that Dionysius Periegetes claimed the mythological Perseus brought the icon of Medusa to Iconium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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