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THE COLLECTOR SERIES
and a serpent. The last are not later than b.c. 217,
when the Baleares became Roman, (ii.) Hispano-Car-
thaginian coinage, 234-10 b.c. (in.) Romano-Iberian
and Latin coinages, b.c. 225-130: (1) money struck at
Emporiae and other places in Hispania Citerior and
Ulterior, in the names of certain tribes which occupied
the surrounding territory, with Iberian inscriptions
(2) money struck under Roman authority (vktoriati,
denarii, divisions of the reduced ces, &c), in silver and
bronze with Iberian or Latin legends, (iv.) Coins with
Latin legends, b.c. 133-80. (v.) Coins with bilingual
legends, Latin and Iberian, b.c 80-72. (vi.) Latin or
Roman coins, b.c 49 to a.d. 41.
Gallia.—Here, as indeed in Hispania, we have to
study two distinct classes of coinage : (1) that of foreign
colonists on the seaboard ;
(2) that of the Gauls them-
selves. The most ancient settlement was that about
b.c 600 at Marseilles by Phocseans, who appear to have
struck for their use a drachma and its divisions of
archaic type, first known from the trouvaille (TAuriol
(1867), and perhaps existing for us only in remains
of the fifth century b.c These coins in their types and
legends refer to the worship of Apollo and Artemis. A
drachma of fine work, attributed to the fourth century,
has the head of Artemis on obverse, and on reverse a
lion with Massa in Greek characters ; this beautiful
piece was soon imitated in a degraded style. During
the Roman period the drachma was adjusted to the
weight of the victoriatus, introduced into Spain by the
conquerors ; and there are bronze coins of this time
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