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

B.C. 700-480. 5
10. Old Smyrna (?). EL. (?6u. Lion's head. i?et;. Incuse square.
Phocaic stater. Wt. 248-3 grs.
11. Zeleia. EL. Obv. Chimsera. Hev. Two incuse squares. Phocaic
stater. Wt. 252-6 grs.
12. Cyzicus. EL. Obv. Tunny-fish and fillets. Beo. Two incuse
squares, one containing a scorpion. Phocaic stater. Wt. 252 grs.
Nos. 10, 11, and 12 may belong to the period immediately
preceding the reform of the coinage by Croesus,
circ. 560 B.C.
13. Sardes. A/". Obv. Fore-parts of lion and bull face to face. Bev,
Two incuse squares. Euboi'c stater. Wt. 124 grs.
14. Sardes. N. Similar. » stater. Wt. 42 grs.
15. Sardes. M. Similar. Babylonic stater. Wt. 159 grs.
16. Sardes. M. Similar. Siglus. Wt. 82-4 grs.
Nos. 13-16 are specimens of the gold and silver coinage
of Croesus, B.C. 568-554, which he substituted for the
previous coinage in electrum.
17. Persia. A/". Obv. The Great King holding bow and spear. Bev,
Incuse. Daric. Wt. 129 grs.
A Persian daric of the earliest style; struck in the
reign of Darius I., b.c. 521-485.
Plate 2. 18. Lampsacus. M. Obv. Janiform female head. Bev. Head of
Athena within an incuse square. Wt. 82 grs.
A coin of fine archaic style, probably as early as B.C. 480.
19. Tenedos. JR. Obv. Janiform head, male and female, Zeus and
Hera (?). Bev. TENE. Double axe. TeweSios Tr4\€Kvs.
Wt. 138 grs.
Aristotle (ap. Steph. Byz. s. v. Tenedos) refers this
type to a decree of a king of Tenedos, which enacted that
all persons convicted of adultery should be beheaded. He
is, however, certainly wrong in this interpretation : as
Leake justly remarks, " such subjects were never represented
on the money of the Greeks ; their types, like their
names of men and women, were almost always euphemistic,
relating generally to the local mythology and fortunes of the
place, with symbols referring to the principal productions,
or to the protecting numina." Cf. the myth of Tennes
and the Tenedian axes dedicated at Delphi. (Pans. x. 14.)