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Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

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62 ASIATIC GREECE.<br />

Metal Size<br />

JE<br />

M<br />

M<br />

M<br />

7i<br />

H<br />

3+<br />

3<br />

Weight<br />

GAZA Palestine.<br />

Septimius Severus.<br />

CCYH CEB. Head <strong>of</strong> Septimius Severus to r. ft. TAZA.<br />

Female standing to I. ; in right hand, hasta ; in left hand, cornucopiaj ; at her<br />

feet, heifer to I. ; in field, llic (year 268).<br />

Note.—The epoch <strong>of</strong> Gaza commenced B.c. 61 {tide Eckhel iii. p. 452). The year 208, therefore<br />

corresponds to a.d. 207, the thirteenth year <strong>of</strong> the reign <strong>of</strong> Severus.<br />

GAZIURA Ponti.<br />

Note.— Strabo, a native <strong>of</strong> the neighbouring Amasia, describes Gaziura as situated where the Iria,<br />

after a western course, turns to the north. This agrees <strong>with</strong> the remarkable position <strong>of</strong> Turkhal <strong>of</strong><br />

which Mr. W. J. Hamilton has given a lithograph in his Asia Minor, i. p. 358. The observation <strong>of</strong><br />

Strabo that Gaziura was in his time a ruin, tends to the belief not only that all the extant <strong>coins</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

this place are prior to the Roman empire, but that all those <strong>of</strong> the Pontic cities, <strong>of</strong> similar style aud<br />

<strong>of</strong> Persic types, are <strong>of</strong> a similar degree <strong>of</strong> aDti(iuity.<br />

Youthful helmeted head to r.<br />

Another.<br />

B. TAZIOYPaN. Quiver.<br />

GEEGITHA Mysi«.<br />

Note.—The ancient Gergitha mentioned by Herodotus was at or near the head <strong>of</strong> the valley <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Rhodius, which joins the Hellespont at the upper Oistle <strong>of</strong> the Dardanelles, but these <strong>coins</strong> are pro-<br />

bably <strong>of</strong> New Gergitha, founded by Attalus near the sources <strong>of</strong> the Caicus (Strabo, p. 616).<br />

Head <strong>of</strong><br />

Apollo, adv. R. TEP. Sphinx, <strong>with</strong> curled wings, seated to r.<br />

Similar legend and type. R. Similar legend and type, but wings not curled.<br />

GERME Mysiaj.<br />

TVXH n0A6OC. Turreted female head to r. R. rePMHNON. Pallas standing to<br />

I. ; in<br />

right hand, patera ; in left hand, spear and shield.<br />

lePA rePMH. Similar<br />

type. R. Same legend and type.<br />

Note.—There were no less than three cities <strong>of</strong> the name <strong>of</strong> Germe in Asia Minor, but the legend<br />

<strong>of</strong> the present coin shews that it belongs to the Hiera Germe <strong>of</strong> Ptolemy (5, 2), who concurs <strong>with</strong><br />

Stephanus in placing this city not far from Cyzicus and the Troas. D'Anville was probably right in<br />

fixing its position at Ghemiasli, a town on the Rhyndacus, about ten miles above the discharge <strong>of</strong> that<br />

river into the Lake <strong>of</strong> ApoUonia, as well as in supposing the modex-n name to be a cox-ruption <strong>of</strong> the<br />

ancient.<br />

Trajanus.<br />

AYTOK. TPAIAN. Head <strong>of</strong> Trajan to r. R. rCPMHNiiN. Head <strong>of</strong> Apollo to<br />

r. ;<br />

Another.<br />

before it, branch <strong>of</strong> bay.<br />

Julia Domna.<br />

lOYAIA oeBACTH. Head <strong>of</strong> Julia Domna to r. R. eni KAniTiiNOC reP-<br />

MHNQN. Jupiter seated to I. ; in right hand, patera ; in left hand, hasta.<br />

AYT. K. M. AY. AN. TOPAIANOC<br />

tune standing to /.<br />

Gordianus Senior.<br />

Bust <strong>of</strong> Gordianus to r. R. rEPMHNiiN. For-

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