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THE COLLECTOR SERIES
The prevailing types are the veiled head of Dione
and the conical pillar of Apollo of Ambracia, the
jugate heads of Zeus and Dione, the former generally
with the oak-wreath, significant of the oak of Dodona,
or the head of Zeus alone. The one piece with Pthia.s
and the veiled head of Pthia is supposed to represent
the mother of Pyrrhus, who struck money not only at
Locri in Bruttium and Syracuse, but in Southern Italy.
There are no coins subsequent to b.c. 168, except some
in bronze, attributed to the priest of the temple of
Zeus at Dodona, with the heads of Zeus and Artemis
on either side.
Coiicyra.—A wealthy commercial city, which ob-
tained its independence in the sixth century b.c, and
produced a long series of autonomous coinage of silver
and bronze down to Roman imperial times. The
uniform archaic type is a cow suckling a calf with
incuse reverse in compartments, inscribed with devices.
The silver stater of Corinthian weight was sub-
sequentlv reinforced by the drachma, the half and
quarter drachma, the victoriatus, the half victoriatus,
and the obol. The standard of the money de-
clined in course of time, and about B.C. 300 the
silver stater of reduced weight was withdrawn. The
types of many of the bronze coins suggest the
Dionysiac cult. In B.C. 338 Corcyra had fallen into
Macedonian hands, but this did not affect the cur-
rency further than the insertion of Kor, as an indica-
tion that the money, which had become in the
Corinthian cities of a uniform standard, belonged
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