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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 4509181, member: 15481&quot;]Nice new old coins, everyone.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Saturday night was definitely free, and so will this Sunday be. It’s constitution day here today, but all arrangements are off due to Covid19. </p><p>I spent my Saturday like [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER]; identifying Greek bronzes. Mine were from Asia minor; Mysia, Troas, Ionia, etc. I used the Plant book for identification, and in the cases where that didn’t help, I got down to dechifering the Greek letters. I then used the search engine for cities on wildwinds.</p><p>I made small collectors cards out of nice art paper, and wrote the basics about the coins on them. You know the drill.</p><p>I like to take my time with this, looking up cities to know a little more than the little information in books like Sear GCV. However, old Sear has some useful notes, that’s for sure. I was happy to read that one of my coins came from «a small coastal town situated south/west of Epheos». I’m from a small coastal town myself, so that made me appreciate that little bronze coin more than before. On the whole, I find that I appreciate the coins that have given me a little work, more. By the time I finished yesterday, I had a tray full of identified coins. I have at least one more to go. After that, I’m going to photograph and archive them all. When that’s done, I have to find another lot of unidentified bronzes, preferably from the same regions. It would be nice to come to a point where I found out that I only had silver coins left to collect from a city.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1117594[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1117595[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1117596[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1117597[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1117598[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s a little more on Phygela, from Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>«Pygela</b> (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" rel="nofollow">Ancient Greek</a>: Πύγελα) or <b>Phygela</b> (Φύγελα) was a small town of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Ionia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Ionia" rel="nofollow">ancient Ionia</a>, on the coast of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caystrian_Bay" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caystrian_Bay" rel="nofollow">Caystrian Bay</a>, a little to the south of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus" rel="nofollow">Ephesus</a>. According to <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology" rel="nofollow">Greek mythology</a>, it was said to have been founded by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon" rel="nofollow">Agamemnon</a>, and to have been peopled with the remnants of his army; it contained a temple of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis" rel="nofollow">Artemis Munychia</a>.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscorides" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscorides" rel="nofollow">Dioscorides</a> commends the wine of this town.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> It was a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polis" rel="nofollow">polis</a> (city-state) and a member of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League" rel="nofollow">Delian League</a>.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-Poleis-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-Poleis-8" rel="nofollow">[8]</a> Silver and bronze coins dated to the 4th century BCE bearing the legends «ΦΥΓΑΛΕΩΝ» or «ΦΥΓ» are attributed to the town.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-Poleis-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-Poleis-8" rel="nofollow">[8]</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpocration" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpocration" rel="nofollow">Harpocration</a> wrote that according to Theopompos it took its name when some of the men with Agamemnon stayed there on account of a disease to do with their buttocks (pygai, πυγαί).<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-9" rel="nofollow">[9]</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suda" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suda" rel="nofollow">Suda</a> wrote the same about the name of the place.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-10" rel="nofollow">[10]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is located near <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku%C5%9Fadas%C4%B1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku%C5%9Fadas%C4%B1" rel="nofollow">Kuşadası</a>, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia" rel="nofollow">Asiatic Turkey</a>.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-Barrington-11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-Barrington-11" rel="nofollow">[11]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-12" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygela#cite_note-12" rel="nofollow">[12]</a>»[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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