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

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Metal
M
M
M
JE
Size
5 +
6-5
Ji\ Z^
M
Weight
263-7
EUROPE.
RHEGIUM Bruttiorum.
Note.—Numismata Hellenica, Europe, p. 138.
Head of lion adv. ; in field to I., two olive-leaves ; to r., the ear of a small hare, of
which the body is off the coin. B. PECIHOJ. Bearded Bacchus seated to I. ;
in right hand, cantharus ; left hand resting on hasta ; in field to r., stork to r. ;
all in wreath of olive.
Another similar ; but in field of obverse to l. one leaf of olive, the other off the coin ;
to r., the whole body of the small hare.—
Electrotype.
Head of Apollo to r. ; behind, branch. B. PHriNiiN in two lines ; between them,
within which, cortina.
tripod ;
Head of Diana to r. B. PHPINilN in two lines ; between them, lion to r.
75"4 Head of Ceres to I. ; on the top of the hair, quadruped to l.
41-3
similar to the
work.
RHODA Tarraconensis.
type on some of the Rhodian coins; the
B. Open flower adv.,
whole semibarbarous
iV^o(e.— Eclihel (i. p. 55) has described a coin in the Vienna Collection similar to the present, but
less barbarous, and having on it the legend POAHTQN. Eckhel attests tliat tliree coins of the same
place, which he procured at Toulouse, were found at the foot of the Pyrenees. There can be no
doubt that they are coins of that 'PoSoq which Strabo (p. 100) describes as a 7roXix>"oj' 'Ejivopirdv.
" A comparison of tliis passage with the words of Livy (34, 8), Ab Rhoda secundo vento Emporias
of Rhoda at
perventum," leaves no doubt of the situation both of Rhoda and Emporium, namely,
Rosiis, of Emporium at Ampurias. It is curious, likewi.se, and satisfactory, to observe that tlie
coins of Rhoda and Emporium are on the same standard of weight. (V. Numismata Hellenica,
Europe, p. 50, where the weights of two coins of Emporium are 73-8 and 72 grains Troy.) The coins
of Rhoda have sometimes been attributed to a colony of Rhodes at the mouth of the Rhone, from
which that river is supposed to have taken its name; but if such a place ever existed, it became
probably an insignificant dependency of the Massaliota;, whose abundant and elegant coinage must
have rendered any other unnecessary in that part of Greece.
RUBI Apulise.
JfoU.— V. Numismata 1 Hellenica, Europe, p. 42.
Head of ox adv., with pendents from the horns; above, PY. B- Lyre of si.K strings.
Beardless male head to r. B. Club and bow; between them 2 above, PY*? ; all in
wreath.
SCOTUSSA Thessalise.
Note.—y. Numismata Hellenica, Europe, p. 94.
Head of young Hercules in lion's scalp to r. B. ?K[0]. Anterior part of horse
stepping
to r.
SERDICA ThraciEe.
Note.—\. Numismata Hellenica, Europe, p. 94.
L. Verus.
AY. KAI. A. AYPHAIOC OYHPOC. Head of Lucius Verus to r. B. CePAON.
Female in long drapery seated to I. ; in right hand ? in left, cornucopia;.