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

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EUROPEAN GREECE.<br />

ance <strong>of</strong> Antigonus and the Macedonians. The figure on the reverse is supposed by Visconti (Icon.<br />

Gr. II. p. 125) to be Minerva ; in which case it must have represented the statue <strong>of</strong> Minerva Poliu-<br />

chus in the Acropolis <strong>of</strong> Sparta ; but this statue was made by Gitiadas, who lived about 500 b.c. •<br />

whereas the figure on the coin indicates, by its columnar form, a much earlier time. More probably<br />

it was the statue

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