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THE COLLECTOR SERIES
suspected that the archaic money of this region
has been to a large extent lost, or has yet to be
recovered. The oldest at present known belongs to
Thronium, and is a silver obolos with a bearded head
on the obverse and an incuse reverse. The coinage of
the best period of the Locri, whose capital town or city
was Opus, is between b.c. 400 and B.C. 338, the date of
the battle of Chacroneia, when the exclusive monetary
rights were withdrawn by Philip of Macedon from the
capital and transferred to Locris in genere. The inscrip-
tion on the money (silver staters and hemidrachms) was
changed from Opuntion to Locron. The Locrian coinage
was suspended under Macedonian rule, and under that
of Rome we have coins only of the two short reigns of
Galba and Otho. The Locri Ozolae appear to have
belonged to the JEtolian League. Of Amphissa and
(Eantheia there are coins of the second century B.C.
Phocis.—The coinage commences about the middle
of the sixth century b.c, and is of federal character,
emanating from a confederation of two-and-twenty
cities, whose Amphictyonic folk-moot or Synedrion as-
sembled near Daulis in a building known as the Phoki-
l"on. We have coins of various character from the
middle of the sixth to the middle of the second century
b.c. The principal cities were Daulis and Delphi. The
types of the bull's head and of the boar with the head
of Artemis are symbolical of ancient worships (see Head,
p. 287). Of Delphi there are very ancient coins in
silver with two rams' heads and two dolphins on obverse,
and on reverse an incuse square cantonned with dolphins,
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