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

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Size Weight
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77
21-7
M 45-7
EUROPEAN GREECE.
Caracalla.
AYT. M. AYP. ANXaNEINO
Emperor galloping and launching javelin
. . . onEA .
. Bust of Caracalla to r. R. AAPIANOnOAITlUN.
to r.
Diadumenianus.
. AIAA Head of Diadumenianus to /•, R ANO-
nOAEITSiN. Serpent rising from cista, opening to r.
Gordianus Junior.
AYT. K. M. ANT. TOPAIANOC AYF. Head of Gordianus to r. R. AAPIANOnOAI-
TON. Gates of the city.
HERACLEIA Acamanise.
Feminine head of Bacchus crowned with ivy to r. ; behind, mon. 39. R. Pegasus
flying to r. ; below, mon. 49. (HPA.)
Same type ; behind, mon. 50. R. Same type and monogram.
Same type ; behind, mon. 51. R. Same type and monogram.
Female head to r. ; hair bound with narrow decorated crown ; behind, sceptre and
mon. 51. R. Same type and monogram. — Electrotype from the B. M.
Note.—A coin in Hunter, Tab. 29, 8, shows that this head is a personification of the city.
Beardless head of Hercules with lion's scalp to r. R. HPAKAEQTAN. Lion springing
to r. ; above it, mon. 52 ; in exergue, club.
Bearded head of Hercules to r. R. Same legend ; club and arrow.
Note.— In Tr. in Greece, IV. p. 23, I was uncertain whetlier Echinus stood at Vonitza, on the
shore of the Ambracic Gulf, and the Acarnaniau Heracleia at Aio Vasfli, five geographical miles
south-eastward of Vduitza in the interior,— or the reverse ; but an examination of the preceding coins,
which were found in that part of Greece, compared with others of the Hunter collection, leads me to
conclude that Heracleia was the city which stood at Aio Vasfli. These coins accord with the importance
of Heracleia, indicated by the extensive walls, of which the foundations are still extant at Aio Vasfli ;
which I there
moreover, the worship of Bacchus, which the coins attest, is confirmed by an inscription
copied (No. 164), recording the names of the magistrates of the city, together with those of the officers
of an oracular temple, among whom was the MArEIPOS, or cook, and the APXOINOXOYS, or
chief wine-pourer ; the latter an office peculiarly suitable to a temple
of Bacchus. In the Hunter
Collection, Tab. 29, 6, a silver coin of this city (weight 148'2) represents the head of Hercules on one
side and Bacchus seated on the other. The Pegasus implies a Corinthian colony, but which did
not, like so many others in its vicinity, strike didrachma exactly resembUng the Corinthian.
HER^A Arcadise.
Note.—Hersea stood on a height above the right bank of the Alpheius, in the lower valley of that
river, near the frontier of Elia. Some vestiges of it are still observable, chiefly of Roman times ;
its imperial coins ai"e extant from Antoninus Pius to Caracalla.— Vide Tr. in the More'a, II. p. 91.
Veiled and diademate female head to I. R.
A^3 ;
above and below which, a double
row of dots separated by a line.zigzag
-Electrotype from the B. M.
Note.—In the Eleian tablet, which is more ancient than this coin, the name of the people of Hersea
is written EPFAOIOI ; the digamma therefore which is found in that document, both before and
after P, had been dropt between the date of the tablet and that of the coin. In the name of the
Eleians (TON F AAEIQN), on the contrary, the digamma occurs on the tablet as well as on the coins
to a late period of Eleian autonomy.