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

Metal
M
M
M
M
M
JE
Size
2
1 +
1-
4+
6
4i
M^eight
19-2
22-8
10-1
M 3 36-7
M
EUROPEAN GREECE. 45
Same types to I R. AAA. Goafs head adv. between two dolphins, in quad.
incus.
Same types to r. R.. Two goats' heads opposed and touching ; above, dolphin to r.,
all in quad, incus.
Head of a negro to r. R. Aa- Goafs head adv., in quad, incus.— This and the
two preceding are Electrotypes from the B. M.
Note.—The ram's head was a type of the sun. The wild goat is supposed, by Eckhel (II. p. 194),
to be a Cretan type, brought from thence by the colony of Castaliua ; the dolphin therefore may be
attributed to the fable of Apollo having conducted Castalius to Delphi under the form of a dolphin.
The negro is perhaps jEsop, who was a liberated slave, and, according to one tradition, a black. In
fact, AiiTWjrof and AiBioip are words of the same import. He was sent to Delphi by Croesus, where
he gave such offence, that the people threw him over one of their bicipital rocks. For this they were
visited with calamities, and appeased the gods by making compensation to his late master, ladmon
of Samos. To have placed the head of ^sop on their money is quite in consistency with this story.
basis.
ffadrianns.
Laureate bust of Hadrian to r.
Faustina Senior.
R. AeA*nN. Tripod on
eeA *AYCTeiNA. Head of Faustina to r. R. nveiA. A large table, upon
which, from left to right, are a wreath, a vase, a pile of spherical objects, and a
crow to I.
with six columns on the
Same legend and type. R. AGAOSiN. Tetrastyle temple
side ; in its pronaus, a colossal statue to I.
Same legend and type. R. AGA^SiN. Head of ? Apollo tor.
DEMETRIAS Thessali^.
Note.—Thia city was founded by Demetrius Poliorcetes about 290 b. c. It was one of the three
cities which Philip, son of Antigonus, called the fetters of Greece (jri^ai 'EXXijvicat, Polyb. 17, 11 ) ;
the two others being Chalcis and Corinth. Its remains exist near Volo, on the eastern side of the bay
of PagasEe, which city stood on the opposite side of the same bay. Vide Tr. in N. Greece, IV. p. 375.
Head of Diana to r. R. AHMHTFIEflN in two lines ; between them, anterior part
of galley to r. ; in field to I., mon. 7.— Electrotype from the B. M.
DEULTUM Thraciaj.
iVofe.— Develton, or Deultum, was a colony of veterans, established by Vespasian, whence the FL
(Flavia), and PAC (Pacensis or Pacifera) ; the magnificent temple of Peace, built by the same
emperor at Rome, is well known. Deultum stood near a lake, at the distance of 24 si. p. from Anchialus,
on the road to Constantinople (Antonin. Itin., p. 229 ; Plin. H. N. 4, 11 Ptolem. ; 3, 13).
Maximus,
C. IVL. VER. MAXIMVS CAES. Bust of Maximus to r. R. COL. FL. PAC. DEVLT.
Draped figure, crowned with modius, to I. ; in right hand, patera over altar ;
in left, cornucopise.
DIONYSOPOLIS Moesise Inferioris.
iVo««.—The original name of Dionysopolis, according to the anonymous periplus of the Euxine,
was Cruni, afterwards Matiopolis, and finally, from a statue of Bacchus, said to have been thrown
ashore there by the sea, Dionysopolis. According to the same authority,
north-eastward of Odessus, now Varna, a position corresponding to the modern Kavarna.
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it was 200 stades to the