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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2832618, member: 82322&quot;]I am not a provincial specialist.&nbsp; For pre-Roman Greek city-states there are about 600 cities: 200 common, 200 scarce, and 200 very rare.&nbsp; It is possible to try to collect one from each city.&nbsp; I would be surprised if any single human collector obtained an example all of the very rare cities.</p><p><br /></p><p>No emperor can have all of the cities as some cities were incorporated into the empire and became Roman mints or lost their mint status.&nbsp; I would guess the Roman ruler with the most cities would be either Augustus, Hadrian, or Gordian III but I don&#039;t know and hope someone will say.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had forgotten I have a coin of <b>Tityassos</b> from the Roman period:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]667989[/ATTACH]</p><p>Pisidia, Tityassos, circa 2nd Century AD. AE 18mm, 4.78g</p><p>O: ΤΙΤΥΑСС; Forepart of boar right</p><p>R: ΜΗΤΡΟС; Tetrastyle temple with pellet in pediment and diagonal connectors between outer columns; within circle of dots.</p><p><i>SNG von Aulock</i> 5375, <i>SNG Paris</i> 2233-4</p><p>Clark&#039;s Ancients, list 119, November 2004, lot 136 (Lovette collection)</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was previously posted on the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-sophomoric-humor-c-papirius-turdus.298314/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-sophomoric-humor-c-papirius-turdus.298314/">Roman Republican sophomoric humor thread</a>.&nbsp; Some folks find the city&#039;s name name highly suggestive.&nbsp; If you want a coin of this type for your own collection, there is one on an auction site at this time, and it is nicer than mine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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