Alphabetic Ancients Game.

Here's one in the name of Kolophon.

KINGS of MACEDON. Antigonos I Monophthalmos, Strategos of Asia, 323-305 BC., in name of Alexander III. AR Drachm. Kolophon mint. Struck c.310-301 BC.
Obv. Head of Herakles r. wearing lion skin headdress.
Rev. Î'ΛΕΞÎ'Î�- "ΡΟΥ, Zeus Aëtophoros seated l., monogram, K, in l. field, crescent below throne.

(19mm, 4.27 g )

Ref Price 1825.

Κολοφών as an ancient city in Ionia, modern Turkey, has a prestigious history. Founded around the turn of the first millennium BC, it was likely one of the oldest of the twelve cities of the Ionian League. It was the birthplace of the philosopher Xenophanes and the poets Antimachus and Mimnernus. In Greek antiquity two sons of Codrus, King of Athens, established a colony there. It was the strongest of the Ionian cities and renowned both for its cavalry and for the inhabitants' luxurious lifestyle, until Gyges of Lydia conquered it in the 7th century BC. Kolophon then went into decline and was eclipsed by neighbouring Ephesus and by the rising naval power of Ionia, Miletus.

After the death of Alexander the Great, Perdiccas expelled the Athenian settlers on Samos to Kolophon, including the family of Epicurus, who joined them there after completing his military service.

In the 3rd century BC, it was destroyed by Lysimachus, later a king (306 BC) in Thrace and Asia Minor, during the same era when he nearly destroyed (and did depopulate by forced expulsion) the neighboring Ionian League city of Lebedos.

After Lysimachus' conquest, it failed to recover (unlike Lebedos) and lost its importance; actually, the name was transferred to the site of the port village of Notium, and the latter name disappeared between the Peloponnese at the time of Cicero.

Additionally, the city, as a major location on the Ionic mainland, was cited as a possible home or birthplace for Homer. In his True History, Lucian lists it as a possible birthplace along with the island of Khios and the city of Smyrna, though Lucian's Homer claims to be from Babylon.

Nice coin Medieval..

I have a Khusro drachm also...no decent images to share yet...but it has similar types of 'scoops' out of the silver. Do you have any idea what the purpose of these was for? If I saw them on a Roman Republican drachm I would know that they were to even out the quantity of silver in an an overly heavy coin, before striking...but in such a thin coin as these Sasanian drachms that would seem more difficult to achieve this way, so I wonder if they have a different explanation?

Kushan Empire: Vima Kadphises (circa 100 - 127/8 AD) AE Tetradrachm 27 mm diam. Weight: 17 grms.

Already there.

KINGS OF MACEDON. Kassander (317-305 BC). AE19. Uncertain Mint. 19mm, 7.42g.

Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin.
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ KAΣΣANDPOY. Rider on horseback r. Monogram beneath and monogram r.

Ref. SNG Alpha Bank 900-936 var.

Another one which has fallen victim to the humidity in Sydney and will have to be 'resettled'.




AE Dirhem from Kutb al din Modud ibn Zangi (AH544-Ah565 = 1149-1169) dated AH556 (1161), Zangids of Mosul - Mitchiner#1117var

Kamnaskires-Orodes (Elymais)
tetradrachm
early to mid 2nd century AD