The coins of Athens have been already described ; the lepta of Elensis have Demeter in a biga of winged serpents and a sow ; those of 3legara, the head of Apollo and his lyre. Of Achxa there is a remarkable series of the league, with the head of Zeus and the monogram of Achma and the initials of the towns; others have Zeus Nicephorus, and Demeter. The didrachms of Corinth have the 4 for the initial of the name of the city, the head of Pallas Chalinitis in the Corinthian helmet, and Pegasus, or Bellerophon and the Chimera ; on the imperial are In°, Melicerte. The drachms of Patrm resemble those of the Achman league ; those of Phlius have a wheel. The archaic drachms of Sicyon have a flying dove, with 1E, the archaic initial of the city, of great beauty ; the later, a China:era, with the same bird, and are of great beauty. The archaic didrachms of Elis have an eagle with a serpent, emblem of Olympian Jove, and FA for Falis, the itiolic name of the oity, with a thunderbolt ; later coins, the eagles feeding off hares, and a winged Victory seated ; and the last, a copy of the head of the celebrated Hera of Polyeleitus, with her name Hera inscribed upon the kredemnon or attire. The drachms of the Cranii in Cephallenia have the ram of Halle ; Za.cynthus has the head and tripod of Apollo; Ithaca, Ulysses.
The Messenian didrachms have the head of Demeter or Persephone bound with ears of wheat, and on the reverse Zeus Ithomatas; the drachma: of Laconia, the head of Hercules ; and the tetradrachms of Cleomenes the portrait of this monarch and the armed Aphrodite, and on late copper Lycurgus himself. The drachms of Argos, a wolf; the smaller pieces the protome of a wolf, and on the reverse A in a square, the head of Hera, and Diomed; Trcezene has the trident of Neptune. Those of Arcadia have Zeus Lyemus with an eagle, and a female head in a square ; the silver coins, the head of Pan ; the hemidrachms of Herma, the head of Hera ; Mantinea, the bear and acorn ; those of Megalopolis, the laurelled head of Zeus Lyexus, and Pan seated holding a pedum, and an eagle on Mount Lyceius; Pheneus, the heads of Proser pine and 3Ialeag,er ; Stymphalus, the head of Artemis, and Hercules and the Stymphalian birds. In Crete the art of the coins is peculiar, rather coarse, and the pieces are often large. The drachms of Aptera have the head of Zeus or Hera, and Hermes or Apollo and Apteras ; those of Gnossus, the Minotaur holding in each hand a bull, and the labyrinth ; the didrachms, the head of Minos, Hera or Ariadne ; those of Cydonia, the ivy-crowned head of Dionysus, and Cydon with his bound, holding a bow ; the tetradrachms, Artemis, with a hound and torch. The drachms of Elyrus have a bee of the celebrated hives which nourished the Cretan Zeus, and the celebrated goats which by eating the herb nourished drew the iron from their wounds; the old didrachm of Gortyna, Europa seated in the tree, with Zeus as an eagle, and Zeus under the form of the bull ; Hierapytna, a palm tree and eagle ;. the
diarachms of Hanna, Tritons and two sea serpents ; the very old. drachms of Lyttus, a flying eagle and the forepart of a boar ; the didrachms of Phmstus, Hercules killing the hydra, bulls and ear of corn, and an ox bound and feeding, or the winged Talus hurling stones at all who approached the island, and Zeus Gelehanos seated on a tree holding a cock. Polyrrhcnium, Priansus, and Rhaucus have interesting coins. Eubcea has Aphrodite; the tetradrachms of Carystus, a cock, and a calf sucking a cow. The didrachms of Chalcis, Apollo and a lyre; the triobols of Ifistiea, the head of Hera, and the prow of a ship ; the tetradrachms of Eretria, the head of Artemis Amarynthia, and a bull with a fillet on his horns. The old didrachms of Ceos, a bunch of grapes and incuse square; the didrachms of Melos, a pomegranate. Ceos has a pomegranate ; Coresia a sepia, the copper of Julis, the head of Aristmus, and a bee ; the didrachms of Pares, mentioned by Ilesychius, have the head of Ariadne and a goat; Tenoa has the bead of Dionysus, with the ram's horn and grapes.
The Asiatic coins commence with the Cimmerian Bosphorus extend from B.C. 289 to A.D. 337. The first okthem, those of Par.
staters, resemble those of Lysimachus. The tetradrachms of MI dates III., B.C. are of fine although barbaric work, with a g, portrait. Those of the great Mithridates IV., B.C. 123-62, both tt staters and tetradrachms, give fine portraits of the king. Those oi. Pharnaces II., B.C. 62.47, are nearly as fine. The later kings, com mencing with Asander, B.C. 46-13, struck a series of gold and electrum staters, didrachms of base alloy, and copper, with portraits of the Caesar as their reverses and dates. Those of Pontus are not remark able. Amastris has the head of Amastris the Amazon, its founder. The tetrobols of Cromna have the heads of Zeus and Hera ; the drachms of Sinope with Greek or Phcenician inscriptions, have the head of the local eponymous nymph and an eagle devouring a tunny. The brass obols, Perseus and the 2Egis. In Bithynia, the old drachms of Chalcedon have a bull and incuse square ; the drachms and trihemio bole of Heraclea, the beads of Hercules and Hera ; the drachms of Cius, the head of Apollo and a ship ; the didrachms of Heraclea, Heracles and the city, and didrachms of the tyrants Timotheus and Dionysius. There is a fine regal series of tetradrachms and copper of the kings of this state, with portraits, as Nicoinedes I., B.C. 276-250, Prusias II., B.C. 149, with his head winged as Perseus and Jupiter; and of Nicomedes IL These coins are dated with the Bithynian mra.