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

Si2e
3+
3+
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21
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3
2
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ISLANDS. 153
Head of bearded Bacchus crowned with ivy to r. B. Cantharus ; around, from right
to left, ANAPI.
Same type. H. Diota ; same legend.
ANTISSA Lesbi.
Note.—V. Numismata Hellenica, Islands, p. 3.
1"9 A/. Two boars' heads opposed. R. Rude incuse.— Electrotype frmn the B, M.
APTARA sive APTERA Cretse.
Note.— V, Numismata Hellenica, Islands, p. 3. Eckhel supposed Aptera to have been the eai-lier
form of this name. On the contrary, all example shows that Hellenic superseded the local dialects ;
and that such was the course of language in Crete is amply confirmed by the style of the coins of this
city, though none of those inscribed AIITEPAIQN are of very late date.
Great A. ft. Circle, in which IIT in mon. of same size.
Crowned female hend to >. (Juno?).
Same type. B. ; /^ below, ArET.
B. |^ (An).
Same type. B. Armed warrior with round shield
field, ANTAPAI.
Another similar.
to I.; in three lines across the
Head of Diana ? to r. R. Armed warrior to r. ; around, AflTAPAiaN.
Same type. R. aPA. Bow; below, A IIT.
Crowned female head to r. R. ATI. Bird to r., with raised wing, standing on ?
Female head to r. R. A nXA PA in two lines ; between them, torch ? and arrow-head.
Similar
type. R. Bow; below. All.
Bearded head to r. R. Tripod ; across the 17o"3 AriTEPAION. Female head to r.
field, . . . A . . lilN.
with necklace, ear-ring, and sphendone. R. IITO-
231-6
232
62-7
AIOITO[S]. Armed hero to I., his right hand held up over tree.— Electrotype.
Note.—On both the similar coins, described in Num. Hell. Islands, p. 3, one of which has the nanip
T for K was a Cretism.
with the A, the other with the E, the word is IITOAIOIKOi; ;
ARADUS, Ins. Phoenicise.
Note.- -V. Numismata Hellenica, Asia, p. 26; Islands, Addenda, p. ^9.
Turreted female head with veil to r. R. Winged female in long drapery to I. ; in
right hand, acrostolium ; in left, palm-branch; in field to ^., MP (140) ; under
which, ^ (Phoenician B) ; and lower, eN (55) ; in field to n, APAAIiiN ; all in
wreath.
Another similar, but in field to ?.. HSP (198) ;
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under which, A (Phoenician G) ; and
lower, IA2 (211 or 251).
Note.—The lower arithmetical letters on these coins of Aradus have not been explained. Tht'
of an asi'a which com-
upper have been proved from imperial coins of Aradus to have been the years
menced in the year B.C. 259, in the reigns of Ptolemy II. of Egypt and Antiochus II. of Syria, and
which is traced on coins of Elagabalus as late as the year 477 of the autonomy of Aradus, or a.d. 218.
The year 140 of the same sera on the preceding coin is B.C. 119, in the reign of Antiochus VIII.
(Grypus). The lower numbers cannot mark the years which had elapsed from some earlier event,
the differences between the lesser and greater number on the two coins not being the same.
H9, N; between them, bee. R. APAAIilN. Stag standing to r. before a palm-tree
(Ephesian types).
R r