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

Metal
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Size
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EUROPEAN GREECE, 169
CRITHOTE Chersonesi Thracia.
Head of Ceres, adv. ft. KPieOYSliiN in two lines, between grain of barley,— all in
wreath of corn.
CROTON,
121-6 Eagle, with open wings, to r. ; in its claws, branch with berries. R. Tripod; in
field to L, KPO ; to r., A.
204-9
165-8
41-2
162-3
AIS[AP0S]. Beardless head to r., hair behind in flowing locks (river ^sarus).
R. KPOTflNIATAN, in two lines ; between, fulmen.
DAMASTIUM Illyrici.
Head of Apollo to I. R. Tripod on basis ; on the latter, AAAVAST. ; in field to r.,
INii ; to left, KH*I.
Same type. R. Tripod on basis ; on the latter, KAHO ; around the tripod,
AAM[ASTI]/ii.
Female head with hair in net to I. (Diana !) R. Figure, in slight relievo, of the
annexed form and size lize,
Ppyi
around, AAA\AST
DARDANIA Mcesise Superioris.
ROMA. Helmeted head to r. R. DARDANICI (metalli). Female in long drapery to I. ;
in extended right hand, ears of corn ;
left holding drapery.
NoU.—This is one of the coins named nummi metallorum, which generally bear the heads of
Trajan or Hadrian ; the present specimen is an exception. At which of the cities of Dardania it
was struck, is quite uncertain. The Dardani occupied the country immediately to the noi-th of
Paeonia, as appears by their having claimed the western part of Pseonia when Macedonia was
divided into four provinces by the Romans in B.C. 167.— Vide Tr. in Northern Greece, III., p. 462
et sec).
DYRRHAOHIUM Illyrici.
Note.— It was after the departure of Alexander to Asia, that the Illyrians attained their greatest
power. When Scodra was the capital of the northern Illyrians under Pleuratus and his successors,
the Dardani obtained possession of the maritime country to the southward, bordering upon Epirus.
One of their chieftains named Monunius made Dyrrhachium his capital, and styled himself /SooiXeuf.
Teuta, or Etuta, his daughter, was married to Gentius, the last of the lUyrian kings, who in the year
B.C. 167 was led in triumph at Rome.— Liv. 44, 30. Athen. 10, 11.
Monunius.
Cow to r., with head turned towards calf, sucking to I. ; above, jawbone of boar,
R. AYP. BASIAEilS M»N»yNI»Y. Gardens of Alcinous.— Electrotype from
the B. M.
FERENTUM Apulise,
. , naas. Head of Hermes to I. R. Pegasus to I. ; in exergue, [I3]aTH3a8.
iV^oic—Ferentum, or Forentum (Liv. 9, 16. 29), now Forenza, was taken by C. Junius Bubulcus
in the year B.C. 316. It is one of the places named by Horace (Od. 3, 4) as being, together with
Bantia (Banzi) and Acherontia (Acerenza), in the vicinity of his native Venusia. The use of the
Oscan language in these places at a comparatively late time is exemplified by the bilinguar inscription
in Latin and Oscan, relating to Bantia, and hence called the Tabula Bantiana, which was found
in the year 1790 at the neighbouring Oppido.
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