A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients ...

B.C. 190-100. 97
Plate 55. 16, 17. Epirus. j51. O&u. Head of Dodonaean Zeus ; two monograms.
Rev. AriEIPOTAN. Eagle, on thunderbolt; the whole in oak
wreath. Wts. 78 grs. and 74 grs.
A comparison of these two coins, identical in type,
shows how rapidly art degenerated during the second
century B.C. No. 16 may be of the end of the third
century ;
No. 17 is of the middle of the second.
18. Cassope. M. Obv. Head of Zeus. Bev. KAZZOnAlON.
Eagle, on thunderbolt ; the whole in oak-wreath. Wt. 72-8 grs.
Compare with this coin V. B. 11, which is earlier in
style.
19. Corcyra. M. Obv. Head of young Dionysus. Bev. Pegasus;
beneath, two monograms. Wt. 77*5 grs.
Corcyra, which fell into the hands of the Romans B.C.
229, and was by them made a free state, may have begun
to coin money of this type soon after that date ; but the
style of this piece is certainly later than B.C. 200. Cf.
Maronea and Thasos, VI. B. 5 and 6.
20. Acarnania. JR. 06u. AKAPNANHN. Head of Apollo. Bev.
Artemis, carrying torch. In field, anchor. Magistrate's name,
eYHN. The whole in wreath. Wt. 113-5 grs.
This is one of the latest coins of the Acarnanian
League ; the Seleucid anchor on the reverse may indicate
the year of its issue, b.c. 191, when the inland cities of
Acarnania, under Clytus, the strategus of the league,
admitted Antiochus III. into the city of Medeon.
21. Leucas. JR. Obv. Statue of goddess, on base, holding aplustre ;
the whole in wreath. Bev. AEYKAAION YnEPBAAAflN.
Prow of galley. Wt. 118-5 grs.
The goddess on these coins is identified by Prof. E.
Curtius with Aphrodite ^Eneias, who had a sanctuary
near the town of Leucas, overlooking the canal through
which vessels passed between the island and the mainland.
This is the coinage of Leucas, probably struck after its
eeparation from the Acarnanian League, b.c. 167.
22. Boeotia. JR. Obv. Head of Zeus. Bev. BOmTflN. Nike,
holding wreath and trident. In field, name of magistrate. Wt.
76-9 grs.
This is the last coinage of the Boeotian League, which
was dissolved by the Romans in B.C. 146.
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