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<strong>HISTORICAL</strong> <strong>GREEK</strong> <strong>COINS</strong>was dedicated either on the island, or at Triopiumon the mainland. 1Of the other attributions of this coin, that proposedby Head 2assigns it to Antigonus Doson, withreference to his 8expedition to Caria in 228 B.C.His chief argument is the comparatively late appearanceof the style of the work ;but the force ofImhoof-Blumer's arguments on the other side isadmitted. A. J. Evans, 4 on the contrary, acceptingthe attribution to Gonatas, would place it'even earlier in his reign. Already in 280 we findhim aiding Pyrrhus with his ships.He had inheritedhis naval power from his father DemetriosPoliorketes, and there seems no good reason whyhe should not have alluded to it on his earliestcoinage.' In the face of this divergence of opinionwhich shows, among other things,how little helpis afforded in this period by stylewe are free tochoose. Now the type clearly betokens somededication of a ship to Apollo and it is rejecting;the best gifts of Providence to ignore the passageof Athenaeus, which tallies so exactly with thesomewhat unusual type. A mere general referenceto naval power would have been sufficiently expressedby a ship without an Apollo.1Benndorf, Neue, arch. Untersuch. auf Samothrale, pp. 84 f. On thecircumstances in general, see Niese, ii. pp. 130, 131.aH. N. 1 , p. 204. 3 Niese, ii. p. 326.4Horsemen of Tarentum, p. 150.130

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