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

98 PERIOD VI. B.
23. Athens. JR. Ohv. Head of Athena, wearing crested helmet,.
adorned with griffin and foreparts of horses. Bev. A0E —
ANTIOXOZ-KAPAIXOZ-MENAN-. Owl on amphora.
In field, right, elephant ; on amphora, I (number of prytany) j
beneath, Z0. (mint-mark). The whole in olive-wreath. Wt.
256-9 grs.
The first magistrate on this coin was afterwards Antiochus
IV. of Syria. In the year b.c. 176 he was in
Athens. The symbol, an elephant, clearly refers to him,
and not to the second magistrate.
24. Athens. Similar types. KOINTOZ-KAEAZ-AIONYZCIOZ].
Symbol, Nike, crowning seated figure. On amphora, P (3r(J
prytany); beneath, Al (mint-mark). Wt. 247 grs.
The first magistrate on this coin is supposed by some
to be Quintus Caecilius Metellus, proconsul in Macedonia
B.C. 146.
25-27. Achaean League. M. (25) Elis. wt. 36-5 grs.
(26) Messene. Wt. 37 grs. (27) Lacedsemon. wt.
38-1 grs.
As none of these towns were members of the league
before b.c. 192, these coins are all subsequent to that date.
For early coins of the league, see V. B. 23-25.
Plate 56. 28. Crete. CnoSSUS. M. Ohv. Head of Minos, with royal diadem.
i?eu. KNflZinN. Square labyrinth. Wt. 257-5 grs.
29. CnOSSUS. M. Ohv. Head of Apollo. Magistrate, flOAXOZ.
i^eu. KN^ZION. Circular labyrinth. Wt. 227 grs.
30. CnOSSUS. xR. 06u. Head of Athena, as on Athenian tetradrachms.
Rev. KNnZlHN. Owl on amphora. In field, labyrinth. Thewhole
in olive-wreath. Wt. 254'3 grs.
Certain Cretan cities, for commercial reasons, adopted
for their coinage Athenian types during the second century
B.C., at the time when the Athenians supplied the
currency for the great central market at Delos, which had
the monopoly of the whole of the trade with the East.
31. 32. Gortyna. M. (31) 06u. Head of Minos, diademed. Rev.
rOPTYNlON. Athena Nikephoros, standing; at her feet, serpent.
Magistrate, 0IBOZ. The whole in olive-wreath. Wt.
235-2 grs. (32) rOPTYNlON. Coin of Attic type. Infield,
butting bull. Wt. 249 grs.
33. Hierapytna. .ZR. Ohv. Head of city, turreted. Rev. I EPA
riYTNION. Palm-tree, at foot of which eagle. Names of
several magistrates. Wt. 230 grs.