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70 NTMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
. . Hyspaosines B.C.
. . . Apodacus B.C.
Tiraeus .... B.C.
124.
109.
60 51 or 54.
Attambelus I. . . B.C. 29 or 27 A.D. 5.
Abinerglus . . . A.D. 9.
. Adinerglus
Attambelus II.
Theonneses
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A.D. 21.
A.D. 5160.
A.D. 109119 or 122.
Attambelus IV. . . No coins.
Attambelus V.
Artabazus ... No coins.
7. J. Friedliinder. Letters of Eckhel.
8. J. Friedliinder. Lamia. A reply to Professor Gardner's
note in " Num. Chron.," Part 74, p. 268, in which he maintained
his attribution of the portrait on the coins of the town of Lamia
as being that of Lamia, the Hetaera of Demetrius Poliorcetes,
against Dr. Friedlander, who takes it to be a head of Apollo.
In the Annuaire de In Societe Fraiigaise de Numismatique for
1878, 1879, and 1880, the following are some of the principal
articles :
On the changes in the doctrine of money, and the practical
consequences of such changes in antiquity, by F. Lenorniant.
In this remarkable paper, which has since been incorporated
by the author in his latest numismatic work, "La Monnaie dans
1'Antiquite," tome iii., 1 the writer traces the theory of money in
ancient Greece and Rome, and shows how the Greeks, the
inventors of the use of money, were imbued with the only true
theory as to its character of real merchandise, and how we find
in no one of the Greek writers of the autonomous period any
trace of the baneful theory which treats gold and silver coins
merely as conventional signs of value, subject to the will of the
sovereign or of the State. Turning from Greece and Borne, M.
Lenormant tells us that neither the coins nor the records
indicate any mistaken notions on the subject of money during
the flourishing ages of the Republic. The Flaminian law,
passed when Hannibal was at the gates of Rome, was the first
which gave to money a conventional value which it could not
command as merchandise. This temporary measure, adopted in
a time of pressure to recruit an exhausted treasury, was the fatal
precedent upon which was based the false theory that a legislative
decision was sufficient to fix the value of the metallic specie.
1 The notice here given is extracted from a review of the
third volume of M. Lenormant's work which we contributed to
the Athenainn, Sept. 6, 1879.