The Weber collection; Greek coins ... - Forvm Ancient Coins

No.
1300
PI. 49
I3OI
PI. 50
1302
PI. 50
Wt.
l82
11.79
58
3.76
62.4
4-04
Metal
Size.
^R23
JE 17
JE 17
SICILY
DESCRIPTION
Enna.
(CASTROGIOVANNI)
One of the most sacred places in Sicily, the chief-seat of the cultus of
Demeter, and the scene of the rape of Persephone (Hist. Num., p. 136).
Circ. B. C. 340.
AAM ... (to r.). Head of Demeter to r., wearing earring and neck-
lace ;
hair bound with corn-wreath.
T$L. ENN (to r.). Head of sacrificial ox with filleted horns, to r. ;
above, corn-grain.
B. M. Cat., p. 58, n° 2.
Holm, III, p. 675, n° 400.
(W. T. Ready, 1900.)
ENNA (r.). Bust of Hermes to r., wearing winged petasos ; over 1.
shoulder, caduceus :
border of dots.
tyL. Male figure seated to r., holding uncertain object in r. and 1.
hand grasping tree.
B. M. Cat., p. 59, n. 8.
Eryx.
(M ,e S. GIULIANO)
According to Thucydides, a town of the native Elymi. On the mountain
of the same name, near by, stood the famous temple of Aphrodite Ery-
cina of Phoenician origin. Destroyed by the Carthaginians in the First
Punic War.
Before circ. B. C. 480.
EKVKI fto 1
v
^
;.
NON (to r.)
Eagle, with closed wings, standing to r. on capital of
column : border of dots.
IJ^,. Crab : within concave circle. — Drachm.
Cf. B. M. Cat., p. 6i,nos 1-3.
Cf. Hill, Ancient Sicily, PI. 11, 2.
273 —
(Bunbury sale, 1896; lot 296.)
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