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

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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