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

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Metal<br />

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Size Weight<br />

in grains<br />

Troy.<br />

3i<br />

4!*<br />

30-1<br />

EUROPE.<br />

ACHAIAN LEAGUE.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Jupiter Homagyrius to r. ft. X (monogram <strong>of</strong> Achaia) in wreath.<br />

Same type. R. Same monogram <strong>of</strong> Achaia; above, half goat to r. ; across the<br />

field, AAKI.<br />

MilKPIO. Jupiter naked standing to I. ; in right hand. Victory presenting to him<br />

a crown. R. AiriEiiN AXAIflN. Female (Juno ?) seated to I. ; in<br />

right<br />

hand, crown ? left, resting on hasta.<br />

Same type. B.<br />

the B. 31.<br />

Gortyna Cretce.<br />

KOPTYNIilN AXAIUN. Same type ; below, moa.— Electrotype from<br />

Note.— That this coin, wherever it may have been struck, is to be attributed to the Cretan, and<br />

not to its<br />

metropolis, the Arcadian Gortys, may be presumed from the latter luiving been nothing<br />

more than one <strong>of</strong> the small fortified places around Lycosura which employed the currency inscribed<br />

APKAAQN, and was one <strong>of</strong> those which contributed to people Megalopolis. In the time <strong>of</strong> Pausanias<br />

Gortys, the walls <strong>of</strong> which are in existence, was still a Kui/iri <strong>of</strong> the Megalopolitis (Pausan. 8, 27).<br />

Gortyna <strong>of</strong> Crete, on the other hand, at the time <strong>of</strong> the Achaean league, was the greatest city in<br />

that great island ; its connexion <strong>with</strong> Philopoemen is shown by the Gortynii having invited him to<br />

command their army. When the Achcean league was in alliance <strong>with</strong> the Romans against Philip<br />

<strong>of</strong> Slacedonia, we read <strong>of</strong> 500 Gortynii having joined Flamininus when on his march into Thessaly<br />

prior to the battle <strong>of</strong> Cynoscephalae (Lib. 33, 3). We learn from this coin that the name was sometimes<br />

written Gortyna, as we find it in the Theodosiau Table ; and that, as the forms Gnossus and<br />

Cnossus were both in use, so also Gortyna and Cortyna.<br />

Pelkne.<br />

APXEMA. Same type. ft. [nEAjAANION [AXAIiiN]. Same type.<br />

Tegea.<br />

Same type. ft. [TEr]EATAN AXAIiiN. Same type ; in field to I., mon.

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