The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

262 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
after the general declaration of freedom in Hellas by
Flamininus in B.C. 197, for had this been the case the
coins restruck would assuredly have been those of Philip
and not those of Antigonus, who died in B.C. 220.
All things considered, it seems, therefore, safer to attri-
bute to the reign of Philip and to the period before B.C. 197
the bronze coins in question, as well as the silver with the
same obverse type, viz. the head of Persephone facing,
which cannot be separated from the bronze.
These silver coins weigh about 80 grains, and may be
called drachms of a standard,
to which for distinction's
sake we may give the name of Aetolian, The origin of
this standard is doubtful (perhaps it is simply the
Aeginetic reduced). In the coinage of the Aetolian
League we find it combined with the Attic, the various
Aetolian denominations weighing 260 grs. (Attic tetra-
drachm), 160 grs., 80 grs., and 40 grs. The same coinstandard
is also prevalent during the same period in
Corcyra, Epirus, Acarnania, and Euboea.
78 grs.
M. Size 4.
Average 57
grs.
SILVER AND BRONZE, CIRC. B.C. 220 197.
Head of
phone
wearing
wreath.
Similar.
Perse-
facing,
corn-
[PL VI. 5.]
[PL VI. 6.]
BOIfrmiSI. Poseidon,
naked, standing r., resting
on trident and holding dolphin
; in field, Boeotian
shield and various letters or
monograms, among which
are the following, Al >AT,
I |'/ 41 '
L*-\. 7
BOIQTfiN. Poseidon,
naked, standing 1., resting
one foot upon a rock and
leaning on trident.