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

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Metal
M
M MM
M
M MM
M
M
M
M
M
M
Size
2i
2
2
U
2+
5
5
4
3
3
3
2+
4+
5-4
5
2i
M 41
2
Weiglit
30-1
11-8
116
30-3
INSULAR GREECE.
^ote. The name may have been Eumenus or Eveenetus, both these names occurring as those
of artists on coins of the neighbouring Syracuse.
Head of Silenus to ^. B. KATANAmN. Bull, butting to r. ; in exergue, centipede?
jVofe.—The worship of Bacchus, of which the types occur on coins of Catana, may be supposed to
have come from the Sicilian Naxus, Catana having been a colonial offset from that place. The
reverse is symboUcal probably of the river Simsethus,
Same type. B. KATANAIiiN. Winged fulmen.
Two others ; medium weight,
11 '6 grains.
Same type to r. B. KATANAiaN from r. to I. ; same type.
Head of Silenus, adv. B. K N. Laureate young head to r.
KATANAItlN. Head of Jupiter Amnion to r. R. Female, with apex on head,
standing to I. ; in right hand, scales ; in left, cornucopise ; in field to I., mon.
25 ; to r., mons. 26, 27.
Two others.
Head of Apollo to I. ; behind it, ?. R. KATANAISiN, in two lines ; between them,
female, standing to r. ; in left hand, bird ? below, II.
Same type ; behind the head, mon. 28. R. Same legend and type ; below, II.
Same type to r. R. Same legend ; female as before ; in left hand, bird ; below, II.
Same type ; behind the head, X. R. Same legend and type ; below, II.
Same type. R. Same legend and type; in left hand of female, three ears of com;
below, II.
Bonnets and stars of Dioscuri ; between them, 2il, in mon. ; above which, owl
to r. ; below, KATANAiaN. R. Naked figure, recumbent to I. ; in right hand,
left arm resting on vase (river-god).
rhyton ;
Same type ; below the legend, head of lion ? to r., between two monograms. R. Same
Head of Bacchus, crowned with ivy, to r. ; above, AASIO ; behind, a mon.
R. KATANAIiiN. Two naked figures, bearing two draped figures on their
shoulders, one stepping to r., the other to I.
Another similar.
KATANAiaN ; a naked figure, stepping to I., bearing a draped figure on his shoulder,
R. A naked figure, stepping to r., bearing a draped figure on his shoulder ; in
field to I., star.
Note.—The figures on these coins represent Amphinomus and Anapiaa, two young men of Catana,
who, during an eruption of ..Etna, saved their parents from destruction, and received heroic honoon
from the Catansei (Strabo, p. 269. Val. Max. 5, 4).
KATANAI . . Head of Bacchus to r., bound with ivy, and with hair in bunch behind.
R. Bacchus, seated on car to ?., drawn by two panthers to r. ; in his
right
hand, grapes ; left resting on car ; in field to L, a mon.
Same legend ; head of Hermes to r. R. Victory, stepping to I. ; in extended right
hand, crown ; in field to I., two mons.
Another similar.
Crowned female head to r. R. KATANAIQN, in two lines ; between, two ears of
corn.
CENTURIP.^.
Note.— Centuripse (now Centorbi) was a town of the Siculi, which having, like many others,
adopted Greek civilization, became, by the strength of its position on a height separated only from
the side of .(Etna by the vale of the Simaethus, one of the most considerable states of the interior of
Sicily. In the time of Cicero, it was one of the five cities of the island which enjoyed the privileges
of freedom, and immunity from taxation (Cicero, Verr. 3, 6).
Some of its coins are of this time, and
there are others as early as the fourth or fifth century B.C.