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

!
Metal Size Weight
M
JE
M
M
M
^
^
H
ASIA. 65
Domitianus.
AYTOKPATQP AOMITIANOS SeBA2T02. Head of Domitian to I. R. lOYAieflN
TiiN KAI AAOAlKGiiN in four lines ; between the second and third, turreted
female in long drapery to I. ; in right hand, crown ; in left hand, cornucopise.
LAODICEIA Colonia.
Elagabalm.
. .. . AYP. ANTONINVS AVG. Head of Elagabalus to r. R. AAVDICEON.
Two wrestlers standing on club, one of them bearded ;
in exergue, AG.
LARISSA Seleucidis Syrise.
Note.—V. Numismata Hellenica, Asia, p. 75.
Turreted female head to r. R. [AAPIjSAIftN [TH]2 lEPAS KAI AYTONOMOY.
Horse's head with bridle to I. ; in field to r., FIAP in mon.— Electrotype.
LIBEDUS Ionise.
Note.— V. Numismata Hellenica, Asia, p. 76-
Caracalla,
, . . . ANTONGINO. Head of Caracalla to r. R. AeBGAISiN. Owl to r.\
head adv.
LORYMA Persese Rhodioruni.
Head of Apollo Helius adv., the right cheek partly covered by eagle to r. R. Rhodian
flower ; under the flower, A Q, ; below, to /. of the flower-stalk, y ; to r., A ? in
field to r., thyrsus.
Note.—The ruins of Loryma are found at the bottom of the bay of Aplothfka on tlie Carian side of
the strait of Rliodos. Immediately behind the ruins rises a mountain crowned with the remains of
an ancient fortress, which, as well as the mountain itself, was named Phoenice. This name, and the
advantageous ])osition of Loryma resembling that of Cnidus, tend to the belief that Loryma was
one of the early settlements of the Phoenicians on the coasts of Greece. From Strabo and Pliny
it appears that Loryma was in their time a ruin. From the present coin the conjecture arises that
all the silver coins with Rhodian types without PC, but which have the remarkable addition of an
eagle before the cheek of Apollo on the obverse, belong to the Persea (which, as we learn from Strabo,
contained Physeus and Caunus, and extended to the confines of Lycia), or to some Rhodian colony in
Lycia, where we know of two such colonies, namely, Rhodiopolis and the island Megiste. In the
British Museum there are six coins bearing Rhodian types on both sides, with the addilion of the
eagle on the obverse. Of these, in place of the PC, which constantly occurs on silver coins of the
city of Rhodes, one has Til, another ME (probably for Megiste), one is without any letters, and three
have IIA in the place of PO. These latter I am inclined to ascribe to Patara ; for, although Patara
was a member of the Lycian league (v. Num. Hellen. Asia, p. 150), its coins of that time could hardly
have been less than two centuries posterior to those with Rhodian types and the eagle on the obverse.
Prior to the supposed colony from Rhodes at Patara, it was no more than a Xi/ii/v dependent on
Xanthus.