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HISTORICAL GREEK COINSAbout the dating of these coins there can belittle divergence of opinion. The two bronze coinabear the names of two strategi of the Phociansduring the Sacred War. Philomelus, as we know,did not at first touch the temple-treasures. But hewas eventually driven to borrow not for the firsttime in Greek history from the sacred treasury.His successor, Onymarchus called Onomarchusby most, if not all, ancient literary authoritieswas even less scrupulous or more pressed, andfrom the first levied contributions on the shrine.He is said to have struck gold and silver coins. 1Enormous quantities of treasure were melted down ;but no such thing as a Phocian gold coin is extant,nor is there anything of this period in the way ofsilver except small coins. We know, it is true,that a considerable quantity of the coins weremelted down by pious Locrians after the war, and2returned to the sanctuary in the form of a hydria,but this ishardly enough to explain the entiredisappearance of the goldcoins. Nor can it beexplained by the drain out of the Phocian territoryto which this currency would naturally be subjectin these troublous times ;for there is no reasonwhythese coins should not be lost and found inneighbouring districts. That Onymarchus melteddown gold objects we have the best of reasons forbelieving; that he struck gold coins is not socertain, though a gold coin may be turned upany day to banish our doubts. The authority of901Diod., xvi. 33.2, 56.6.2 Plut., de Pyth. orac., 16, p. 401 F.
HISTORICAL GREEK COINSDiodorus on a detail of this sort is not good ;andthe fact that much of the treasure was of gold nomore proves that gold coins were struck, than thesimilar circumstances in the case of Damarete'scrown (see above No. 20) prove that the Damareteiawere gold coins. The small Phocian silvercoins, on the other hand, are common and wereevidently struck in large quantities, but they donot bear the names of any of the strategi.The fact that Onymarchus and Phalaecus l placedtheir names on the coins has been reckoned as anitem in the charges against them. A 2 tyrant likeAlexander of Pherae had recently done the same ;but the position of these strategi was constitutionallymore similar to that of the Boeotarchs of theBoeotian league. Yet no one sees a sign of despotismin the fact that Boeotian coins bear the namesof Boeotarchs.If Onymarchus or his successors placed theirnames on silver as well as on bronze coins, theformer have not survived. Probably the generalsdid not go so far. Here again, it is unlikely thatsome of the large quantity of coins which musthave been issued should not have escaped the piouszeal of the Locrians. Too much has perhaps beenmade of this single fact related of the Locrians,and we have no reason to suppose that theirexample was very generally followed.The style of the fine stater (No. 52) is entirely infavour of the general opinion which attributes it to1Phayllus seems to have abstained in this respect.2e.g. by Beloch, Or. Geach., ii. p. 324. 91
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PREFACEmark the course of the rise
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INDEXCADMUS, son of Scythes of Zanc
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INDEXWreath: Antioch,163 ; Gortyna,
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