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HISTORICAL GREEK COINSPythagoras himself seems to have arrived inCroton at the beginning of the last third of thecentury. 1 The coinage of southern Italy cannothave begun much later, for we have a few coins ofSybaris, which was 2destroyed in 511-510 B.c. Thesouth Italian monetary ' federation ' has alreadybeen connected with the Pythagorean domination.The peculiarities which differentiate this union, thesole bond of which appears to be similarity offabric, from real monetary unions, prompt us tolook for its explanation in some such abnormalinfluence as was wielded by the Pythagoreanschool. And as the fabric is a somewhat fantasticone, we need not fear the charge of fancifulness ifwe look for what, in other circumstances, would bea far-fetched explanation. Is it not possible thatin this representation of both views, both front andback, of the same object, there may have beensome awkward attempt to express one of those tenpairs of contraries of which the Pythagorean systemmade so much ? To ovv 8eioi> KOI oVa> /cat eayOaov CKaXovv, TO 8e apurTepov Kal Kara) KCUKO.KOV eXeyov.3Why, it may be asked, take somuch trouble to represent unnecessarily whatwas KO.KOV ? The answer is, that it was not unnecessary,according to this system, for the completerepresentation of the object in its essence : c/cyap (rS>v o^rot^eteuv) &? WTrap)(ovTa)v crvvtcr-1533-532 or 529-528 B.C. Busolt, Or. Oegch., ii. 2 762.2 Also of Siris, the destruction of which Busolt dates about 530 (op.cit., ii. 9 758) ;but the date is quite uncertain.8 Aristot. ap. Simplic. de. caelo, 173" 11. See Ritter and Preller, Hist.Phil. Or., 55 e.24
HISTORICAL GREEK COINSrdvcu KOL 7T7rXacr0ai (fracrl rr)i> ovcrtav. 1 Note thatthe peculiarity of the fabric emphasisesthe factthat we see hack and front of the same figure,much more than would be the case if both sideswere in relief, as on most coins.But to return to less speculative questions connectedwith the coinage. Until the discovery nearMessina in 1895 of the Zanclean coins, of whichour No. 8 is an example, this fabric was supposedto be confined to the Italian peninsula.The discoveryemphasises the intimacy of the relationsbetween the two sides of the strait. Naxos,2which was also in close relations with Zancle,was sufficiently far removed from Rhegium to beuninfluenced by the peculiar fabric.The hoard of coins from which No. 8 comes seemsto have been buried about the beginningof thefifth century possibly at the time of the revolutiondiscussed below (Nos. 12 f.),after which the'Messenian 'coinage began.The type of the Zanclean coin is a good instanceof early heraldry. The local word ay/cXoi>,whichgave its name to the city, meant sickle, 3 and theharbour was enclosed by a sickle-shaped bar ofsand. This fact is expressed by placing a dolphinemblem of the sea within a sickle-shaped bar.The word
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INDEXUnder certain headings (which
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INDEXCADMUS, son of Scythes of Zanc
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Egypt, no early coinage in, 15 ;see
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INDEXWreath: Antioch,163 ; Gortyna,
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