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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4342375, member: 82322&quot;]Here is a coin that qualifies both ways:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099931[/ATTACH] </p><p>LYCAONIA. Iconium (as Claudiconium, after Claudius). Hadrian (117-138 AD). AE17. 2.36 g.</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>Ref: von Aulock Lykonians, 290-2; 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 <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/75205" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/75205" rel="nofollow">specimen 9</a>!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Let us not leave the Hellenes out.&nbsp; Here is a coin issued by Seleukos I at the city he founded, Seleucia-on-the-Tigris:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1099932[/ATTACH] </p><p>Seleukid Kingdom. Seleukos I Nikator. Seleukeia on the Tigris, circa 280 B.C. Æ 23, 10.92 g</p><p>Obv: Winged head of Medusa right</p><p>Rev: BASILEUS SELEUKOY, bull butting right; Θ above, monogram below bull.</p><p>ex Agora Auctions, March 2014, lot 6-033[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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