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THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

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GREEK <strong>COIN</strong>S<br />

dom, Paphlagonia, and Pontus. There is a plentiful<br />

coinage of cistophori, &c, issued under imperial autho-<br />

rity or licence in the name of the koinon or com-<br />

munity of Bithynia. But of the cities separately there<br />

are ancient autonomous coins from the sixth century<br />

b.c. belonging to Astacus, Calchedon, Cius, and Hera-<br />

cleia. There are gold staters of Cius, only known<br />

from the Sidon find (1865). Some of the religious<br />

indications on the money of the Pontic region allude<br />

to the worship of Antinous, Apollo, and Demeter. The<br />

money of Calchedon resembles that of Byzantium in<br />

the presence of the bull, which here has an ear of corn<br />

under his feet instead of a dolphin. The regal series<br />

extends from b.c. 278 to 74, and consists of six dynasts,<br />

so far as the evidence of coins goes. There are gold<br />

staters of Nicomedes II. Epiphanes, b.c. 149-91.<br />

Mysia.—In this division of Greece there are several<br />

interesting and important considerations to occupy the<br />

attention of the numismatist and collector. We can<br />

only glance at them. Mysia embraced the ancient<br />

and extremely prolific mints of Cyzicus and Lampsacus,<br />

and was the source of that immense volume of con-<br />

vention-money known under the name of cistophori,<br />

of which the Bacchic type appealed to the common<br />

religious sympathies of the population among which<br />

they were intended to pass current. The principal coin-<br />

centres were Apollonia on the Rhyndacus, Cyzicus,<br />

Parium, Lampsacus, and Pergamum. The electrum<br />

coinages of Cyzicus and Lampsacus are well known,<br />

and in the case of the former we have the advantage<br />

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