HISTORICAL GREEK COINS - eBooks4Greeks.gr

HISTORICAL GREEK COINSmost affected in the fourth century, with highvoluted handles. On some of the coins of the classwith which we are concerned, it is decorated withivy-leaves. It is reasonable then to regard thekrater as representative of the Theban Dionysus,whose head appears on some fine Theban coins ofan earlier date than ours.THE NEW ARCADIAN LEAGUE370 B.C.37. Obv. Head of Zeus 1. laureate.Rev. APK in monogram. Pan, nude, humanexcept for horns, seated 1. on rock onwhich is spread his cloak ;he holds in r.a throwing-stick (lagobolon);at his feet,syrinx ; on the rock, OAY (name ofmagistrate or engraver).British Museum. Silver Aeginetic Stater, 12'34 grammes. P. Gardner,B. M. C. Peloponnesus, pp. lix f., p. 173, No. 48. (The reverse isillustrated from a specimen in Sir H. Weber's Collection. SeeBurlington Fine Art* Club, Exhibition of Greek Art, 1903, pi. cv.374).The earliest coins which bear an inscriptionpatently connecting them with Megalopolis (MET)belong to the third centuryB.C. Nevertheless itis clear that the large series of fourth- century coinsof the first three lettersof the league established by Epaminondas, inscribedwith the monogramof 'ApKaSiKov,must have been, at any rate for theThe style of themost part, struck at Megalopolis.earliest is consistent with their having been issued72