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78 PERIOD V. B. 19. Boeotia. M. Obv. Head of Demeter, facing. Bev. BOmTON. Poseidon, standing, holding dolphin, and leaning on trident. Wt. 78-1 grs. Coins of this type probably belong to the period B.C. 244-197. They appear to be later than IV. B. 22. 20. Athens. JR. Obv. Head of Athena, wearing crested helmet, unadorned. Bev. A0E. Owl, standing on amphora ; on either side, magistrate's monogram ; the whole in olive-wreath. Wt. 259 grs. Nearly all the tetradrachms which have the names of the magistrates under whose authority they were issued merely indicated by monograms, are classed as the earliest of the later series of Athenian money which begins about B.C. 220. 21. Athens. -51. Obv. Similar head ; helmet richly adorned with griffin and foreparts of horses. Eev. A0E - MIKION - EYPYKAEI APEZTOZ. Owl on amphora; the whole in olive-wreath. On amphora, K ; beneath, M E. Symbol in field, the Dioscuri. Wt. 260 grs, Euryclides and Micion are mentioned by historians as TrpodTaraL of the Athenians in B.C. 217. The two magistrates on this coin can hardly be these persons, though they may be their descendants. The letter K on the amphora is used as a numeral to indicate the tenth prytany or month during which the third magistrate, in the present instance APEZTOZ, was in office. The first two magistrates on these late Athenian coins held their places for one year; the third was changed every prytany, about once a month. M E beneath the amphora is the mark of the particular workshop in the mint in which the die was engraved. The accessory symbol in the field is almost always the seal of the magistrate whose name stands first on the coin. 22. Athens. M. Similar types. Magistrates' names, EYPYKAEI -APIAPA-HPAKAEI. Wt. 258-7 grs. The Euryclides who signs this coin is probably identical with the magistrate of the same name on No. 21. It will be seen, by comparing these coins of Athens with those which belong to the next period, that the style of the art continues slowly to deteriorate. < -
B.C. 280-190. • 79 Plate 43. 23. Aclisean League. JR. Obv. Head of Zeus Homagjrrius. Bev. Monogram of the Achaeans, two smaller monograms of magistrates, and a fish ; the whole in an olive-wreath. Wt. 36 grs. The fish is the symbol of Dyme, which joined the league about b.c. 280. 24. Achaean League. M. similar types; but on rev. AH, for Antigoneia. Wt. 38-5 grs. The city of Mantineia received this name in B.C. 222 from Aratus, in honour of Antigonus Doson. 25. Ach^an League. M. Similar types; but on rev. wolf's head, the symbol of Argos, which joined the league in B.C. 228. Wt. 35-7 grs. The style of this coin shows it to have been struck very soon after the above date. Each one of the confederate towns of the Achaean League issued, under the responsibility of its own magistrates, a portion of the federal coinage in silver or copper. Coins bearing the marks of forty-three of these towns are known. 26. Elis. JBj. Obv. Head of Zeus, laureate. Bev. FA. Eagle; in front of which a coiled serpent. Magistrate's signature, Al. Wt. 184 grs. Elis continued to coin money independently of the Achaean League, down to the year B.C. 191, when it was the last city in Peloponnesus to join the league. The head of Zeus on this coin is of a late period, not much before b.c. 200. 27. Lacedaemon. JR. Obv. Head of a king, diademed. Bev. A A. Archaic image of the Apollo of Amyclae, holding spear and bow beside the statue, a goat. Wt. 255'5 grs. The portrait on this coin has usually been said to be that of Cleomenes III., b.c 236-220, but it has lately been identified as that of Antigonus Doson, in whose honour it may have been struck after the battle of Sellasia, B.C. 221. 28. Lacedaemon. M. Obv. Head of Athena. Bev. A A. Herakles, seated on rocks. Wt. 235 grs. The style of the seated Herakles on this coin shows it to have been struck about the end of the third century B.C. ;
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Page 83 and 84: PERIOD V. 71 The chief extant works
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