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

B.C. 400-336. 39*.
28. Samos. M. Obv. ZA. Lion's scalp. Rev. ZYN. Infant Hera-
kles strangling serpents. Wt. 178 grs.
29. Ephesus. M. Obv. E. Bee; beneath, HE. Rev. As preceding
coin. Wt. 176*6 grs.
These two coins, with others similar, of Ehodes, Cnidiis
and lasus, are valuable historical records of an alliance
entered into by these five cities, B.C. 394-387, for the
maintenance of their independence and neutrality in the
conflict between Sparta and Athens. The type selected
for this coinage is borrowed from coins of Thebes (III. B.
27), at this time the great rival of Sparta. It also occurs,
on certain coins of Croton, in Italy, struck about B.C. 389,
when the Greek colonies of southern Italy, menaced by
Dionysius I. of Syracuse, formed an alliance for their
mutual defence.
30. Ephesus. M. Obv. Ec|>. Bee. Rev. APIZTOAHMOF,
Forepart of stag and palm-tree. Wt. 234 grs.
A specimen of the Ephesian coinage, between the Peace
of Antalcidas and the time of Lysimachus. Both the stag
and the bee refer to the worship of Artemis.
31. Chios. -51. Obv. Sphinx, amphora, and grapes. Rev,
BAZIAEIAHZ on the cross-bar of an incuse square. Wt.
232 grs.
The magistrate's name marks this coin as of a later
date than No. 34 of Period II. A.
32. Cnidus. M. Obv. Head of the Cnidian Aphrodite. Rev.
EOBQAO. Forepai't of lion, in incuse square. Wt. 233 grs.
A coin apparently of the early part of the fourth
century.
33. Mausolus. M. Obv. Head of Apollo, facing. Rev. MAYZ-
ZOAAO. Zeus Labrandeus, carrying double axe (\dfipvs) aid
sceptre. Wt. 232-5 grs.
Mausolus was satrap of Caria, B.C. 377-353. His coins
were struck at Halicarnassus.
34. Pixodarus. A/". Obv. Head of Apollo, in profile. Rev.
mZflAAPO. Similar. Wt. 64 grs.
35. Pixodarus. JR. Obv. Head of Apollo, facing. Rev. Similar.
niZaAAPOY. wt. 108 grs.
The date of Pixodarus was 340-335. During this
period the genitive in O is superseded by that in OY.