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

Metal Size
M
M
M
M
JR
M
M
M
JR
M
JR
M MMM
M M
6-
3
4
4+
4
4
4
H
4
5
5
4+
4+
4
5
5
5
41
Weight
162-5
29-3
50-7
40
50-4
61
52-5
59-3
59 3
59-1
59
50-5
58-1
61-2
62-2
62-1
EUROPEAN GREECE. 15
Note.—EcUhel (II. p. 68) cites this coin of the Pembroke collection (620). Jupiter Ammon was
honoured by the Aphyteei, because he was said to have persuaded Lysander to raise the siege of
Aphytce (Pausan. Lacon., 18 ; Plutarch, Lysand., 20).
APOLLONIA Illyrici.
NoU.—For the situation and remains of this celebrated city, see Tr. in N. Greece, I. p. 368. Its
most flourishing time was in the century before the Christian aera, when some of the most illustrious
of the Roman youth went thither for education, and among them Octavianus, afterwards Augustus.
The greater part of the extant silver coins of ApoUouia are of that and the following century. On
most of them two magistrates are named ; one name being in the nominative, the other in the genitive
case, where EIII is to be understood. This was probably the Archon Eponymus.
Cow standing to r. ; her head turned to l. to a calf, which she is suckling ; in field
above, A. R. A linear circle containing a square, divided vertically into two
equal parts ; in the middle of each, three dots, with rays proceeding from them
above and below (gardens of Alcinous ?). In field, between square and circle,
n°A.
A
Note.—These types are the same as on the early coins of Corcyra, of which ApoUonia was a colony.
ANAPilNOS. Head of Pallas to I. R. AnOAAiiNIATAN, in two lines ; between
them, obelisk. In field, above and below, TIMHN.
NIKiiN. Cow and calf as before, but cow to I.; below, caducous? IJ. AIIOA.
APISTinnOY. Square as before, but with sides curved inwards.
APISTHN. Same type; in field to L, a torch; below, a wreath. B. AIIOA.
50-1
*YAAOY. Same type.
46-5 vPISTflN. Same type ; below,
48
? R. AnOA. *IAOAAMOY. Same type, but sides
of square not curved.
SflTEAHS. Same type. R. AnOA. SENOOANTOY. Same type, with curved
sides.
KAAAISTPATOS. Same type ; below, a grain of barley. R. AIIOA. NIKIA. Same
type. — Gilded coin.
AIBATIOS. Same type ; below, car of corn. R. AIIOA. XAIPHNOS. Fire issuing
from the earth ; below it, pedum. — Electrotype.
Note.—The fire represented on this reverse is that of the Nymphjeum, near ApoUonia, described
by Strabo (p. 316), Plutarch (in Sylla, 27), and Dion Casslus (41, 195) ; the place was sacred to Pan
and the Nymphs, whence the pedum on the coins. For a modern description of it, see Dr. Holland's
Travels, 4to. p. 518.
IA0AAM02. Head of Apollo to I. R. AIIOA. *IAOKAHS. Three nymphs
dancing, between the two to the r., a hillock, from which fire issues ; the two
outer nymphs hold a torch in one hand, and a hand of the middle nymph by the
other.
AEINOKPATEOS. Same type. R. AOOA. API2TAPX0S AIHO . . . Same type.
AYSilN. Same type. R. ADOA. AIONYSOAiiPOS. Same type.
APXHN. Same type. R. AHOA. 0EO$ .
. . Same type.
AiiPISiNOS. Same type. R. AHOA. AEINON. Same type,
but the hil-
burning
lock is between the two nymphs to the left.
Another.
AINOKPATEOS. Same R. AHOA. type.
*IAOKA(HS) TE. Same type,
AtiPIIlNOS. Same type. R. AnOA. ANAPOMAX02. Same type.
ANAPiiNOS. Same tvpe. R. AIJOA. TIMHN ANAPO. Same type.
AFiiNinnOY. Same type- R. AHOA. AINOKPATHS EPIMNASTOY, Same type.
Another similar.