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<strong>HISTORICAL</strong> <strong>GREEK</strong> <strong>COINS</strong>Latin languageis no ' significant compliment.' lFried!ander notes that in style it corresponds tothe Macedonian regal coins of the time, and wastherefore probably struck in Macedon, not farthersouth. If it had been struck by Greeks in honourof Flamininus, it would probably have borne acomplimentary inscription in the Greek language,rather than a Latin inscription of the form which isfound on most purely Roman coins. 2The head on this coin is the earliest contem-8porary portrait of a Roman. Macdonald has shownthat the exercise of the right of portraiture here,as on earlier coins struck in Greece, is connectedwith the deification of the person represented.Flamininus was actually deified by the Greeks, andaccepted the honour, apparently without demur.EUMENES II.circaAND STRATONICEIA186 B.C.82. Obv. Cista mystica, with half-open lid, serpentissuing from it ;the whole in ivy-wreathwith berries.Rev. Bow-case, containing bow, between twoserpents ; above, thunderbolt ;on eitherside a human head, male r., female 1. ;within coils of serpent, BA EY; onbottom of bow-case, A ;in field below,1Mommsen, Hist, of Rome, ii.2 Cp. F. Lenormant in Rev. Num., 1852, pp. 192 f.3 Coin Types, pp. 153 f.p. 247, note (Eng. trans.).137

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