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GREEK COINS
There are regal types arising from the formation of the
province with other territory into the kingdom of Galatia,
b.c. 36, and Roman imperial coins (Augustus to Salo-
nina), as well as alliance money and tetradrachms,
countermarked with a bow and bow-case and m.m., to
pass current for the same value as cistophori.
Pisidia lay to the north of Pamphylia and Lycia,
and was a very mountainous country. With the excep-
tion of Selge, which struck autonomous coins of the
triskelis, wrestlers, and Slinger types in the 4th-3rd
centuries B.C., the money of Pisidia is chiefly unimpor-
tant or Roman imperial. Pisidia successively formed
part of the kingdoms of Pergamum and Galatia.
Lycaonia, to the east of Pisidia, possesses a some-
what feeble numismatic interest. Its few autonomous
coins are bronze of late date ; but we discern traces of
the worships of Zeus, Pallas, Herakles, and Hermes
and it was at Lystra that the inhabitants saluted Bar-
nabas and Paul as Zeus and Hermes.
Cilicia, divided into Eastern and Western, in the
former of which the Greek, and in the latter the Ara-
maic language was that of the country, possessed a
coinage in the fifth century B.C., with legends which
are often bilingual. The ancient mints were Tarsus
(of such peculiar Scriptural celebrity), Mallus, and
Celenderis ; but others were afterward added. Some
of the money of the fourth century discloses a strong
Persian influence, proceeding from the occupation of the
ports by Persian satraps for strategical purposes. The
coinage goes back to the sixth century B.C., of which
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