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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3978848, member: 96898&quot;]Many early coins with personal names appear to stem from Asia Minor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one from Lycia:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1047289[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Dynasts of Lycia, Perikles, AR 1/3 stater, ca. 380–360 BC: Obv: Lion scalp facing. Rev: PERIKLE in Lycian script; triskele. 14mm, 2.76g. Ref: SNG von Aulock 4254–5.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Aspendos staters usually don&#039;t have obverse legends. This one has:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1047290[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Pamphylia, Aspendos, AR stater, 380–325 BC. Obv: two wrestlers grappling; FИ between; in exergue, MENETVΣ EΛVΦA. Rev: slinger in throwing stance r.; EΣTFEΔIIYΣ to l., triskele to r.; all within dotted square border. 23mm, 11.04g. Ref: SNG France 97–98; Tekin: Aspendian Wrestlers (2000), series 4. Ex AMCC 1, lot 35; ex &quot;Tiberius&quot; collection.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s quite clear that &quot;Menetus&quot; is a personal name, yet there are a lot of different interpretations of this legend:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1047288[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">(Summary of different theories taken from Tekin, &quot;Aspendian Wrestlers: An Iconographic Approach,&quot; 2000, p. 165.)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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