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GREEK COINS
Antigonus Gonatas, sometimes ascribed to Doson, ap-
pears to refer, from the type of the reverse, to the naval
victory obtained by him over the Egyptian fleet off
Cos in B.C. 265. The Roman coinage for Macedon
usually bears the word Leg, to indicate that it was
struck by the authority of the Roman Legatus or
deputy ; but the most valuable relic of this class is the
gold stater of the Roman general T. Quinctius Flami-
ninus, assigned to the period following the battle of
Cynoscephalse (b.c -
history is unknown.
. 196-90), and of which the exact
The coins of Paeonia, which begin with those of
Lycceius (b.c. 359), after the revolt of the Pseonians,
at the death of Perdiccas III., from the Macedonian
yoke, form a short series spreading over about sixtv
years, and composed of silver tetradrachms of reduced
module, didrachms, drachms, and tetraboli.
Lucaxia.—This region, peopled by colonists from
Tarentum, Thurium, Samnium, &c, comprised the very
important and prolific mints of Metapontum, Poseidonia,
Paestum, Sybaris, and Thurium. At first it employed
the money of other cities not originally included in
its boundaries, Metapontum, Sybaris, and Poseidonia
among them ;
but eventually, down to the Roman time,
about 210 b.c, the various towns produced a remark-
ably fine series of coins, chiefly silver, ranging from
the archaic uniface incuse type to the 10-drachma
piece. A wolfs head found in the field on some of
the reverses is significant of the name of the locality.
The ear of corn which accompanies the coins of
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