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<strong>HISTORICAL</strong> <strong>GREEK</strong> <strong>COINS</strong>The Cretan coins, then, which resemble theAthenian, were doubtless issued by the Cretancities to pay the army which they raised on thatoccasion. The Attic weight- standard, which hadbut recently penetrated to Crete, was convenientfor troops which were to serve with the Athenianarmy.FLAMININUS IN GREECE198-190 B.C.81. Obv. Head of Flamininus r.Rev. T. QVINCTI. Nike standing 1., holdingwreath and palm-branch.Berlin Museum. Gold Stater, 8 '55 <strong>gr</strong>ammes. Friedlander Z. f. N. txii. (1885), p. 2 ; cp. E. Babelon, Monn. de la Rip. Rom., ii. p. 391.At some time between the victory of Cynoscephalae(197) and the return of T. QuinctiusFlamininus from Greece in 194, or, less probably,during his second sojourn in Greece (192-190), theRoman general struck a small number of gold coins,of which but three specimens have come down tous. He issued them in virtue of his imperium, andfor military purposes. In weight, as was necessaryfor circulation in Greece, they conformed to thegold standard which was so familiar to all Greeks,thanks to the staters of Philip and Alexander ;and their reverse type recalls, thoughit does notexactly reproduce, the goldstaters of the latterking. But otherwise (with the exception to benoted below)it is a Roman coin, and the use of the136

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