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

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ASIATIC GREECE. 65
Caracalla.
ANTONI Head of Caracalla to r. R. COL. HEL. Veiled and turreted
female head to I. ; on shoulder, palm branch and cornucopise.
AN Bust of Caracalla to
eagles in a wreath.
r. B. COL. HEL. between two legionary
Geta.
GETA CAESAR. Bust of Geta to r. R. COL. HEL. Veiled and turreted female
head to I. ; behind, palm branch and cornucopise.
S. GETA . Head of Geta to r. ft. COL.
eagles in a wreath.
HEL. between two legionary
HERACLEIA Bithynia.
Note.— This city preserves its ancient name and more than its ancient importance relatively to the
other principal sites on the southern shore of the Euxine. It was a colony of Megara and Tanagra,
whence the Doric HPAKAEQTAN on some of the coins, and HPAKAHAC for HPAKAEIA2 as late
as Geta. The tyrants of Heracleia were, 1, Clearchus, who began to reign B.C. 364 ; 2, Satyrus ;
3, the brothers Tiraotheus and Dionysius, sons of Clearchus, jointly ; 4, Dionysius alone ; 5, his
widow, Amastria, niece of Darius Codomannus. Of the three last dynasts coins are extant.
Head of Bacchus to I. ; behind it, thyrsus, ft. TIMO0EOY AI0NY2I0Y, Hercules
to I., raising trophy. Electrotype.
Geta.
Cen. rCTAC K. Head of Geta to r. R. HPAKAHAC eN HONTO. Naked
male figure, adv. ; in right hand, patera ; in left hand, ears of corn.
AHMOO. Beardless head to r,
cumbent to I.
Another.
HERACLEIA Carije.
ft. HPAKAeaxaN TIM6AHC. Eiver-god re-
Note.—The Timeles proves these coins to have been of the Carian Heracleia, the same river
having flowed through Aphrodisias (Ionian Antiquities, iii. c. 2). The coins may lead perhaps to a
of the exact site of this Heracleia.
knowledge
Note,— Huins of
HERACLEIA lonife.
this city, more anciently called Latmus, still exist at the foot of the mountain of
that name, and on the eastern side of the lake which was formerly the Adrfiiicog KoXttoc, but has
been separated from the sea by the new land formed by the alluvion of the Mseander. Chandler has
described these ruins, which he mistook for those of Myus. Vide also Ionian Antiquities, i. pi. 33.
The tetradrachmon of this city, coeval with similar coins of Smyrna, Cyme, Myrina, is alone sufficient
to prove its importance about the fourth century b.c. See the engraving, Mionnet, sup. vi.
p. 224.
Head of Pallas to r, ft. HPAKAEflTflN. Bow in its case ; club ; all in wreath of
olive.
Augustus.
CeBACTOC. Head of Augustus to r. ft. HPAKAEilTliN. Hercules naked,
standing to I. ; right hand extended ; in left hand, club.
HERMOCAPELIA Lydite.
0€ON CYNKAHTON, Youthful head (Senate of Rome)
to r.
TilN. Female head with modius to r. : in field to r., mon.
ft.
50.
ePMOKAHHAI-