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

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M I
Metal: Size
M
M
M
M
JE
M
5-
U
5-4
Weight
110-8
99-2
113
113-8
109-7
EUROPEAN GREECE.
Same type. B. Same type ; in exergue, NilAAION.
Same type ; the hair bound with two narrow cords
NilAAIilN.
Head of Pallas to r. ; on the helmet, owl, standing
below which, andromorphous bull to r. ; under it, AE united.
B. Same type ; in exergue,
on olive branch
ft. NQAAIiiN;
Note.—Nola was one of the earliest Greek settlements in Campania, and, as at Cumee and Neopolis, \
the first colonists came chiefly from Euhoea. There was an interval between Greek and Roman
domination, when many of the Greek colonies of maritime Italy were subject to some of the Italian
peoples of the interior. Nola was occupied by the Samnites, who at the time were formidable even to j
Rome. From an inscription recorded by Lanzi (p. 612), Nola, in Etruscan letters, appears to have i
been written NV F LA, the Etruscan alphabet not having an O, but no coins are extant with that
legend. The similarity of the coins of Nola and Neopolis, leaves no doubt that the types on both I
were intended for the same personages. The river Glanis, or Clanius, was common to both territo-
ries, and Partheuope was equally revered in either city.
NUCERIA sive NUCRIA Alphaterna Campanile.
Note.—This city (now Nocera dei Pagani) was said to have been founded by Pelasgi, from Pelo- ,
ponnesus, who settled on the banks of a Campanian river, named Sarrus, or Sarnus, now Samo.
Virgil alludes to Nuceria, in his lines relating to the conquests of CEbalus, son of Telou, who.
patriis non Alias arris
Contentus, late jam turn ditione premebat
Sarrastes populos, et quae rigat eequora Sarnus. "- JEn. vii. 736.
From the coins, it appears, that in the third century b. c, the town was in the occupation of a people!
who derived their alphabet from Etruria.
mVHaaTN^NsIF^ kMVma;