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

Metal Size
M
JE
M
M
JE
JE
M
M
JE
M
M
4-
61
5i
7+
6
6
8
4
2-
2-
2
Weight
ASIATIC GREECE.
Antiochus IV.?
• OXON Radiate head of Antiochus IV. ? to r.
Phoenician letters. Europa on bull, as before.
Augustus.
B. SIAliNI
Head of Augustus to I., in a wreath. R. siAiiNOS lEPAS. Same type ; in field
to r., a mon.
Trajanus.
AYTO. NGP. TPAIA . . . Head of Trajan to r. B. SIAONOS NAYAPXIAOS.
Half-draped figure, on the prow of a galley, stepping to L, and extendinff ^ right ^
hand ; in field to I., ZKS (year 227).
Another similar.
ffadrianus.
AYTO. TPAIAN Head of Hadrian to r. B. SIAQNOS eEAS Same
type ; in field to I. L. SKS (year 227).
iVote.—The year of this coin being the same as that of the two preceding, shows that they were all
struck in the year of the death of Trajan, a.d. 117 ; the commencement of the rera, therefore, was
B.C. no, at which time Antiochus VIII. and Antiochus IX., after a long contest, divided Syria
between them, and gave the Sidonians a good opportunity to assert their autonomy.
Magahalus.
IM. C. M. AV. ANTONIN. . . . Bust of Elagabalus to r. B. [COL. A]VR. PIA
METR. SID. Symbol of Astarte, with a small figure on either side, in a
covered chariot.
IM. C. M. A. ANTONINVS AVG. Bust of Elagabalus to r. B. A. P. SID. CO. METR.
Europa on bull, as before, to r. ; in field, A. P.
Another.
Julia Paula.
IVLIA PAVLA AVG. Bust of Julia Paula to r. B. COL. AVR. PIA. METRO. SID.
of Astarte in a covered chariot.
Symbol
SIGEIUM Troadis.
Note.— That the coins of Sigeium should have Athenian types, is in agreement with the fact, that
Sigeium was, for a great length of time, a dependency of Athens. In the time of Strabo it was
in ruins, having been destroyed by the Ilienses, whose autonomous tetradrachma, resembling
those of Alexandreia Troas, show that these two cities divided the supremacy of the Troas between
them in the third century B.C. ; for to this time by their style they appear to belong. From
one of the inscriptions of Sigeium, we learn that it possessed a temple of Minerva, as ancient
probably as that at Ilium. Chishull, Antiq. Asiat., p. 49; Strabo, p. 595.
Head of Pallas, a«?»., towards n B. SIPE. Owl standing to n, looking a«???. ; be-
hind, crescent.
Another.
Same type. B- Same legend, type, and symbol.
Another ; the crescent not visible.
Head of Jupiter to r. B. Same legend and type.
SILANDUS Lydise.
Note.— This city is known only from its coins, which are both autonomous and imperial, and from
its having been a Greek bishoprick under the metropolitan of Sardes. At Selenti, a village situated
on a tributary of the Hermus, in the eastern part of Lydia, Mr. W. J. Hamilton found no remains of
antiquity. Silandus, nevertheless, may be in that vicinity, the name perhaps having moved with the
people,—a process of which there are many examples in Greece.
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