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

Metal Size Weight
^
iE 7^
M 7-6 202-8
M MM
M
M
M
M
3i
''a
2
2
2-1
U
80-8
39-3
43-1
16-8
21-2
17-7
EUROPEAN GREECE.
Note.—This may possibly be a coin of Asopus ;
as Diana Venatrix occurs on coins of that to\ra
(Mionnet, Sup. IV. p. 228), and Kujrapiffffio may have been her epithet, as it was of a Minerva in the
Aci-opolis of Asopus (Pausan. Lacon. 22).
Plautilla.
lOYA. IIAAYTIAA . CEB. Head of Plautilla to r.
to l. ; in right hand, patera ; in left, hasta.
. Philippus
DACIA.
Senior.
li. KYnAPICCieUJN, Pallas
IMP. M. IVL. PHILIPPVS AVG. Bust of Philip senior to r. B. PROVINCIA
DACIA. Female, with Phrygian bonnet, standing to I. ; in right hand, sword ;
in left, standard ; in field to f., eagle ; to r., lion ; in exergue, AN. I.
Head of Apollo to r.
DAMASTIUM Illyrici.
R STINHN. Tripod.
Note.—The resemblance of the types of Damastium to those of Zacynthus, renders it probable that
the former was a colony of the latter, and the more so, as the examples of ApoUonia and Dyrrhachium
show that there was a considerable colonization from the western islands of Greece to Illyria. The
site of Damastium has not yet been identified, although it is hardly possible that some traces of the
silver mines from which its coins proceeded should not still be extant. Damastium was not in the
maritime plains between Dyrrhachium and ApoUonia, as we may infer from the movements of
Csesar and Pompeius, in the year B. c. 49^-48. Nor was it in the Egnatian way, in which the road
from Dyrrhachium joined that from ApoUonia at Scampce, now Elbassan, situated on the river
Skumbi, an evident corruption of Scampae. I am disposed to believe, therefore, that Damastium is
now represented by Kroya. The situation of this place at about twenty geographical mUes to the
northeastward of Durazzo, places it out of the line of the Egnatian way ; the strength and singularity
of its position, as described by Mr. Lear (p. 1 1 1 ), were likely to recommend it for a colonial settlement,
and the adjacent mountains may have contained the dgyvftia rd iv Aaftaariifi, mentioned by
Strabo (p. 326).
BcEotian shield.
Another similar.
Another similar.
DELIUM Bceotiffi.
^. AI. Diota in quad, incus. i
Note.—These coins seem to indicate that Delium was in earlier times more important than when it
was described by Livy (38, fil) as a Templum ApoUinis, and by Strabo (p. 403), as rmv Tavayfialuv
iroXc'xj/iov. AI is the Boeotic form of AE, and consequently of AH, the conversion of E into I having
been common in that dialect, as we learn from extant inscriptions (ride Tr. in N. Greece, II.
p. 630),
where, among other examples, are BIOS for fiioc, IQSAS for iovatfi, IIOAIOS for TToXcuf. On one
of the coins of Boeotia (v. s., p. 28) is found KAIQ[N] for KAEQN.
DELPHI Phocidis.
Head of ram to I. B. D. Bearded head of goat adv. between two dolphins,— in
quad, incus.— Electrotype.
Same type ; below it, dolphin to I. R. AEA. Similar head of goat ; on either side
of it, an ivy-leaf and a dolphin.
Head of ram to r. ; below, it, dolphin to r. R. Same type, without the legend or
ivy leaves,— in quad, incus.
Another similar.