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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Napata, post: 2355440, member: 76197&quot;]<p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #0000ff">Reasonable Candidate</span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>While browsing my favorite coin firms on eBay, I noticed a couple of tetartemorions from Savoca-Coins that give me reasonable leeway to identification.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are these coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Savoca-Coins-Ionia-Kolophon-Apollo-Archaic-Incuse-0-17-g-5-mm-OSM12477-/252295076702?hash=item3abdf55b5e:g:hykAAOSwWTRWye0B" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Savoca-Coins-Ionia-Kolophon-Apollo-Archaic-Incuse-0-17-g-5-mm-OSM12477-/252295076702?hash=item3abdf55b5e:g:hykAAOSwWTRWye0B" rel="nofollow">Tetartemorion #1</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Savoca-Coins-Ionia-Kolophon-Tetartemorion-Apollo-Incuse-0-17-g-5-mm-OSM12476-/252295076694?hash=item3abdf55b56:g:QbQAAOSwFNZWye0D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Savoca-Coins-Ionia-Kolophon-Tetartemorion-Apollo-Incuse-0-17-g-5-mm-OSM12476-/252295076694?hash=item3abdf55b56:g:QbQAAOSwFNZWye0D" rel="nofollow">Tetartemorion #2</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Savoca-Coins-Ionia-Kolophon-Tetartemorion-Apollo-Archaic-0-15-g-6-mm-OSM12475-/262301087815?hash=item3d125cf847:g:O6cAAOSwFNZWyezQ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Savoca-Coins-Ionia-Kolophon-Tetartemorion-Apollo-Archaic-0-15-g-6-mm-OSM12475-/262301087815?hash=item3d125cf847:g:O6cAAOSwFNZWyezQ" rel="nofollow">Tetartemorion #3</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a small visual analysis although both original photo from Savoca-Coins and mines don&#039;t do justice. Sadly, without the incredible apparatus of dougsmit for big magnification, I can&#039;t do better. However, while using manipulating the lil&#039; coin at different angles, some features appear more clear.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/95bYv1Y.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Region of Ionia</b></p><p><b>City-state of Kolophon</b></p><p><b>Obverse: Archaic bust of Apollo</b></p><p><b>Reverse: Quartipartite square incuse</b></p><p><br /></p><p>It is a fairly common coin it seems.</p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed, I need to put a shameless plug about the Achaemenid Persians since it&#039;s about Ionia:</p><p>In royal inscriptions, the dahyava-list (roughly people-list or country-list) listed Ionia as <a href="http://www.livius.org/articles/people/yauna/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.livius.org/articles/people/yauna/" rel="nofollow">Yaunā</a>. Just like Greeks tagged every foreigner&nbsp; as barbaros talking the &quot;bar bar bar&quot; language and conflated Medians along Persians, the Achaemenid elite reduced the Asia Minor Greeks as &quot;Yaunā&quot; people.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, having fun with cuneiforms...the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great mentions Ionia in the three present languages. Old Persian for administrative elite, Susian as the Zagros/Kuzistan region was formerly Elamite and Babylonian as <i>lingua franca</i> (until Aramaic took over).</p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/5ds2YVz.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, the case is closed for the tetartemorion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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