Ancient Coins of Euboea PDF

Euboea
[British Museum Catalogue of Greek Coins, Central Greeceby B. V. Head, 1884.

E. Curtius, Hermes, vol. x, 1876, p. 215 sqq.
Imhoof-Blumer, Monatsbericht d. k. Akad. d. Wissensch., Berlin 1881.
Dondorff, De rebus Chalcidensium, Halle 1855.
Heinze, De rebus Eretriensium Gttingen 1869.]
That an island of the extent and importance of Euboea should have had no native
currency during the period of her greatest colonizing and commercial activity is a
proposition hardly to be entertained. Chalcis and Eretria, from the dawn of history down
to the close of the sixth century, were the two most enterprising cities in European
Greece, as is shown by the large number of Chalcidian and Eretrian colonies on the coasts
of Thrace, of Southern Italy, and of Sicily.
Euboea, also, in very early times had already given her name to one of the most widely
used standards for weighing the precious metals; a remarkable fact, and one which is
alone sufficient to warrant us in supposing that Euboea would be one of the starting-
points of the art of coining on the western side of the Aegean Sea. Granting therefore that,
in all probability, coins must have been issued in Euboea during the period of her
colonizing activity (and especially during and after the Lelantine war, when the rival
Euboean cities Chalcis and Eretria fought out their quarrel for maritime supremacy, a
struggle in which all the more important states, e.g. Corinth, Corcyra, Samos, Miletus,
&c., took part), we must seek for them among the archaic and uninscribed specimens of
the Euboc standard.
It cannot, however, be denied that among the numerous archaic and anepigraphic silver
coins of Euboc weight and of various types it is a matter of conjecture which belong to
the Euboean towns, Chalcis, Eretria, Cyme, &c., and which are contemporary issues of
other states in intimate commercial relations with Euboea. All these coins nevertheless
form a class distinguishable from the contemporary issues of Aegina and from those of
most of the Aegaean islands, not only by their weight but also by their incuse squares
divided diagonally instead of rectangularly or otherwise. Most of these uncertain archaic
coins of the Euboc standard are also characterized by what seems to be a local
peculiarity, the plain linear circle which encloses their obverse types. This is an indication
that they were struck at closely connected mints, if not at a single mint on behalf of
various towns. Linear circles do not
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occur on any other class of archaic coins, as may be seen at a glance by comparing Pl.
XXXIII of Babelons Trait with the other plates of the same volume.
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Most of the coins of the above-mentioned series were formerly assigned to Athens before
the time of Pisistratus, on the ground that they have been usually discovered in Attica;
but as some of them are distinctly later in style than the earliest Athenian tetradrachms, it
may be con- fidently asserted that Athens could not have issued from her single mint so
many various series of coins simultaneously with her own well-known Owls. The
circumstance that they are usually found in Attica [1] is easily explained by the close
relations which always existed between Attica and Euboea, and by the identity of
standard (135 and 270 grs. max.) which enabled them to circulate side by side with the
money of Athens. The uninscribed archaic coins of the Euboc standard with a diagonally
divided incuse square bear on their obverses, usually within a linear circle, the following
types :Owl; Horse walking; Hind part of walking horse; Forepart of prancing horse;
Amphora; Triskeles; Astragalos; Wheel of peculiar form ; Wheel of four spokes !;
Scarabaeus; Gorgoneion; Bulls head to front. On the evidence of inscribed specimens of a
somewhat later date (flatter fabric, and types on both sides) the Wheel may be assigned to
Chalcis and the Gorgoneion and Bulls head to Eretria. The attribution of the remaining
types is doubtful, though it is tempting to assign the Horse types to Cyme on the ground
that similar types are characteristic of its colony Cyme in Aeolis. In Euboea, as elsewhere
in Greece, the Persian Wars form the lower limit of the early archaic coinage. The war
over, the cities of Euboea were enrolled among the allies of Athens, and such of them as
retained the right of coinage adopted a new and improved method of striking money, and
for the most part new types. The various Euboean cities to which these and later coins
may be attributed are the following:
Carystus. Of this town it does not appear that there are many coins of the sixth century,
but after B.C. 480, except during the intervals of Athenian and Macedonian rule, the
coinage is continuous.
M'berg WW SNG B ANS
B.C. 550-445 and 411-336.
KARVZTIO[N] Ox scratching
itself with its horn.
[Babelon, Trait, Pl. XXXII.
14.]
Incuse square, in which cock.
AR Tetradr.
Cow suckling calf. [B. M. C.,
Cent. Gr., Pl. XVIII. 1, 5, 6,
11.]
K, KA, or KAPYZ, &c. Incuse
square (except on later
coins), within which, cock.
AR Didr.
Head of Herakles.
[Ibid., Pl. XVIII. 3.]
KAPY Bull recumbent.
AR Drachm, and Drachm.
Id. [Ibid., Pl. XVIII. 4.] K A Palm tree.
Dr.
Forepart of bull. [Ibid., Pl.
XVIII. 2.]
Incuse square, palm tree.
AR Drachm.
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Bulls head. [Ibid., Pl. XVIII.
9.]
KAPY Two palm trees.
AR Diobol.
Bulls head.
[N. C., 1898, Pl. XIX. 7.]
Palm tree in incuse square.
AR Obol.
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before the publication of the first edition of the present work there was, however, a find of these coins in the
island of Euboea itself. U. Koehler, Mnzfunde auf Euboea in the Mitth. d. Arch. Inst. Athen., ix. p. 354.
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Head of Apollo.
[B. M. C., Cent. Gr., Pl.
XVIII. 10.]
K Three palm trees.
AR Obol.
Head of Herakles.
[Ibid., Pl. XVIII. 13.]
KA Bulls head.
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B.C. 197-146.
Head of bearded Herakles.
[B. M. Guide, Pl. XLIII. 29.]
KAPY Bull recumbent.
AV 49.3 grs.
Beardless head, bound with
royal diadem. [1] [B. M.
Guide, Pl. XLIII. 30.]
KAPYZTIDN Nike in biga.
AR Didr.
Head of bearded Herakles.
[N. C., 1890, Pl. XIX. 9.]
KAPY and magistrates name
OIADN. Bull rushing;
beneath, club.
AR Drachm, 64.2 grs.
Head of Herakles.
[B. M. C., Cent. Gr., Pl. XIX.
3.]
KA Bulls head.
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Head of Zeus. [Ibid., Pl. XIX.
4.]
KAPYZTIDN Eagle; wings
open.
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Veiled head of Hera. [Ibid., Pl.
XIX. 5.]
KAPY Bull butting.
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Id. [Ibid., Pl. XIX. 8.] KAPY Dolphin.
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Head of Poseidon. [Ibid., Pl.
XIX. 6.]
KAPYZTIDN Dolphin and
trident.
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Head of young Dionysos (?).
[Ibid., Pl. XIX. 9.]
KAPY Dolphin.
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The Imperial coins (Nero and Trajan) have usually a head of Poseidon on the reverse.
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Sestini (Mus. Font., iii. Pl. IV. 18) attributes also a coin to M. Aurelius.
For the Cow and calf see Corcyra, p. 326. The Bull or Cow is possibly connected with the
cult of Hera, who possessed a primitive temple on Mount Oche, at the foot of which
Carystus stands (Steph. Byz. s.v. !"#$%&'(; Walpole, Travels, p. 235).
The Cock ()*#$+, )"#$+, Aristoph. Eccl. 30) may perhaps contain an allusion to the name
of the town !"#$%&'(, cf. )"#$%%, (Anthol., p. 5. 3), to crow; see Himera, p. 144.
The gold coins of Carystus were called drachms; see the Inventory of Demares, one of the
-.#'/'0'0 of the Temple of Apollo at Delos, who, among other gold and silver coins
dedicated to the god, registers 1 Carystian gold drachm (B. C. H., 1882, p. 49).
Chalcis. This important Ionic town, the mother-city of so many colonies in Italy, Sicily,
and the peninsula of Chalcidice, carried on an extensive commerce in early times with all
parts of the Hellenic world. Its relations with the Ionians of Asia Minor were probably
instrumental in introducing into Europe the standard for weighing gold and silver,
afterwards known as the Euboc. The earliest Chalcidian coins may have been of electrum
(wts. 45 and 22.5 grs.), but, in spite of their types, the provenance of these pieces points
rather to Samos as their
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The doubtful head on this coin has been thought by Gardner (N. C., 1878, p. 98) to be that of Antiochus III,
and by J. P. Six (N. C., 1894, p. 299) to be that of Alexander, the son of Crateros, and nephew of Antigonus
Gonatas, who appears to have been called King of Euboea, about B.C. 250. Although the portrait bears no
special resemblance to those on any coins of Antiochus, there are objections, on various grounds, to so early a
date as B.C. 250.
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source of origin (B. M. C., Ion., p. xxxi; R. N., 1894, p. 160, Pl. III). The specimens with
Chalcidian (?) types are the following:
M'berg WW SNG B ANS
Before B.C. 507.
Eagle devouring hare.
[B. M. C., Cent. Gr., Pl. XX.
1.]
Irregular incuse square.
El. 44.4 grs.
Eagle flying. [Ibid., Pl. XX. 2.] Id.
El. 22.1 grs.
Wheel of four spokes.
[Ibid., Pl. XX. 3.]
Id.
El. 21.8 grs.
The following archaic silver coins may, however, with much greater probability be
attributed to Chalcis, though, as M. Svoronos has pointed out, those with the Wheel on
the obv. might be assigned to Megara, as specimens have been found along the coasts of
the Saronic Gulf (Journ. Int., i. 373 f.).
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FIG. 200.
Archaic wheel with transverse
spokes.
[Babelon, Trait, Pl. XXXIII.
14.]
Incuse square diagonally
divided.
AR Didr.
Wheel of four spokes (Fig.
200).
Id.
AR Didr.
Id. [B. M. C., Cent. Gr., Pl.
XX. 5.]
Id.
AR Dr.
Id. Id.
AR Trihemiobol.
Id. Id.
AR Obol.
4 (archaic X) on so-called
Boeotian shield.
Wheel in incuse square.
AR Tetradr.
[Imhoof, Mon. gr., p. 221.]
Flying eagle r., holding
serpent. [Green- well Colk,
N. C., 1890, PI III. 23; [Z.
f. N., xxi. Pl. V. 3.]
VA or A between spokes
of a wheel in incuse square;
outside wheel, but within
square .
AR Tetradr. 260 grs.
Similar, but eagle to l.
[Z. f. N., xvii. Pl. I. 3.]
Similar, but wheel in incuse
triangle instead of square.
AR Tetradr.
Flying eagle, holding serpent. Wheel in incuse triangle.
AR Didr.
[Zeit. f. Num., iii. p. 217.]
Id. or without serpent.
8.]
4A Id. in incuse square or
triangle.
AR Tetrob.
Eagle flying. Id.
AR Obol.
For similar coins see also Olynthus in Chalcidice (p. 208).
The conquest of Chalcis by the Athenians in B.C. 507 would seem to be the lower limit of
its archaic coinage. Between this date and the time of Epaminondas, circ. B.C. 370, it can
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hardly have been in a position to strike coins in its own name.
Circ. B.C. 369-336.
Female head with ear-ring.
9.]
XAA Flying eagle, holding
serpent.
AR 58 grs.
Id. [Ibid., Pl. XX. 12.] Id. devouring hare.
AR 27 grs.
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Female head with ear-ring.
[Ibid., Pl. XX. 13.]
X A Eagle standing.
AR Obol.
Id. facing, wearing diadem
surmounted by live disks,
connected by a fillet. [Ibid.,
Pl. XX. 15.]
XAA Id. devouring serpent.
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Female head in profile,
covered with head-dress of
pearls. [Ibid., Pl. XX. 17.]
Id.
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The female head on these coins is probably the celestial Hera, a lunar goddess
worshipped on Mount Dirphys, overlooking the Chalcidian plain. The disks which
encircle the head may symbolize the Planets (cf. Over- beck, Kunst-Mythologie, iii;
Gemmentafel, i. 8). The Eagle devouring a Serpent seems to be an emblem of the
Olympian Zeus, as on the coins of Elis, for at Chalcis one of the chief shrines was that of
Zeus Olympios (cf. Hicks, Gr. Hist. Inscr., 2nd ed., No. 40, p. 65).
Circ. B.C. 336-197.
Throughout the Macedonian period Chalcis was one of the chief strong- holds of the kings
of Macedon, and was hence called one of the three fetters of Greece. Tetradrachms of
Alexanders types were struck there , symbol, Head of Hera encircled by disks as above.
This type was sometimes used as a countermark over bronze coins of Antigonus (N. C.,
1898. Pl. XIX. 9).
Circ. B.C. 197-146.
In B.C. 197 Chalcis received her freedom at the hands of Flamininus, as did also the other
Euboean towns Carystus, Eretria, and Histiaea.
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FIG. 201.
Head of Hera veiled, and
wearing stephane (Fig.
201).
XAAKIAEDN Hera with sceptre
in quadriga. Magistrates
name, EENO- KPATHZ.
AR Attic tetradr.
FIG. 202.
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Female head, with two long
locks at back of neck.
XAAKI Eagle and serpent.
Magis- trates name,
MENEAH ... (Fig. 202).
AR 84 grs.
XXI. 3.]
XAAKI Id.
AR Diobol.
Head of Hera, facing, wearing
coronet of pearls and fillet.
[Hunter Cat., Pl. XXXIII. 8.]
Prow. Magistrates name,
ZDZIHA.
AR Tetrob.
XAAKI Quadriga.
[B. M. C., Cent. Gr., Pl. XXI.
4.]
Magistrates name in wreath.
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Head of Hera crowned with
pearls, or facing on the
capital of a column.
XAAKIAEDN Eagle and
serpent [Ibid., Pl. XXI. 5].
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Imperial Times.
On the Imperial coins a head of Hera, crowned with a head-dress com- posed of three
tiers of pearls, and fixed on the top of a column is the most frequent type; but on a coin of
Sept. Severus a complete statue of the celestial Hera is seen, accompanied by her name
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"#$. (B. M. C., Cent. Gr., Pl. XXI. 12.) She is seated on a conical stone, and wears a long
chiton and peplos, and a lofty head-dress; she holds a phiale and a sceptre. The sacred
conical stone also occurs by itself as a reverse type. The magistrates names on Imperial
coins are L. Livius, L. Rufinus, Tib. Claudius Euthycleides, Mescinius, Cleonicus, &c.
(Imhoof, Mon. gr., p. 222.)
Cyme, a town of great antiquity on the eastern coast of Euboea, had fallen into a
dependent condition, probably before the close of the sixth century B.C. The coins which
may be (though only conjecturally) ascribed to it are didrachms and drachms, in style and
fabric corresponding with the other Euboean series with the Wheel, the Gorgoneion, &c.
Horse in plain circle.
[Beul, Mon. d'Athenes, p.
19.]
Incuse square, diagonally
divided.
AR Didr.
Forepart of horse in plain
circle.
Id.
AR Didr. and Dr.
Hindpart of horse in plain
circle.
XXIV. 20.]
Id.
AR Didr. and Dr.
The horse, as in Thessaly and Boeotia, may he connected with the cultus of Poseidon
Hippios.
There exists also a coin of Phocian types and of the Aeginetic standard which, from its
inscription, appears to have been struck at Cyme.
Bulls head, facing.
(Electrotype in Brit. Mus.)
Female head in incuse square,
in three corners of which K
Y M
AR Dr. (?).
Eretria. This city was second only to Chalcis in importance, and may lay claim with
reasonable show of probability to the following series of coins :
M'berg WW SNG B ANS
Circ. B.C. 600-511 (?).
FIG. 203.
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Bulls head, facing.
[Rev. Num., 1864, Pl. VII.
10.]
Incuse square.
EL Hecte (?).
(Found in Euboea.)
Gorgon-head. Incuse square, diagonally
divided.
AR Didr.
Id. (Fig. 203.)
XXII. 3.]
Id. Lions head, facing, in one
angle of incuse square.
AR Didr.
Id. Id.
AR Obol.
XXII. 7- 10, and Babelon,
Trait, Pl. XXXI. 14-17.]
Incuse square, within which,
lions head, facing;
sometimes between.
AR Tetradr.
Unless the two pellets on these coins are meaningless, which is very improbable, they
must be marks of value indicating that the so-called tetradrachms of circ. 266 grs. were in
the sixth century didrachms and not tetradrachms. This appears to have been also the
case at Athens before the reduction by half in the weight of the Attic silver unit of account
effected by Hippias. See infra under Athens. Cf. also the silver coins of Etruria (p. 13
sq., supra), where a corresponding change in the nomen- clature of the denominations is
noticeable.
FIG. 204.
Gorgon-head (Fig. 204). Incuse square, within which
Bulls head, facing.
AR Tetradr.
Bulls head, facing.
[Brit. Mus. Guide, Pl. V. 23.]
Id., diagonally divided.
AR Didr.
The Gorgoneion and Bulls head may be symbols of the worship of Artemis Amarysia, a
Moon-goddess (?) whose sanctuary near Eretria remained, down to a late date, a kind of
Amphictyonic centre for all central and southern Euboea.
Circ. B.C. 511 (?)-490.
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The new issue of Eretrian coins, which probably begins about B.C. 511 (Babelon, Trait, p.
685), is marked by a change of fabric. From this time the pieces are thinner, flatter, and
more spread, and are distinguished by the letters or R (B. M. C., Cent. Gr., Pl. XXIII.
1-6). This series probably came to an end in B.C. 490, when Eretria was destroyed and its
inhabitants sold into slavery by the Persian generals Datis and Artaphernes. The city was,
however, shortly afterwards restored, for it took part in the battles of Artemisium,
Salamis, and Plataea.
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FIG. 205.
Cow scratching herself; on
her back a swallow.
Octopus in incuse square.
AR Tetradr.
(Fig. 205.)
Id.; no swallow. Id.
AR Didr.
Id. Id.
AR Dr.
Head of bull or cow, facing. Id.
AR Diob., Obol, and Obol.
Gorgon-head.
XXIII. 8.]
Forepart of horse springing
from rock, in incuse square.
AR Obol.
The octopus or cuttle-fish (&.$10() was the well-known and recognized device or
/"#"%*'2 of the town of Eretria, just as the owl was of Athens; for Themistocles, on one
occasion, mockingly compared the Eretrians to cuttle-fish: &'$( 3. 4#.&#0.0( ./0%)'/&'2
.5.6.2 '%/.# &.$103"( "7"0#"2 .2 .7.02 )"#30"2 3. * .7.02 (Plut. Apophth. Reg. et Imp.
(Themist.), xiv; also Vita Themist., xi).
With the revolt and reconquest of Euboea by Athens in B.C. 445, the right of coinage
appears to have been withdrawn from all the cities of the island, but when Euboea
regained its autonomy in B.C. 411 it would seem that Eretria became the place of mintage
of a series of federal coins then issued with the inscr. %&'(), %&', %&, &c., though with
Eretrian types; and (doubtless under Peloponnesian influence) for a brief period
according to the Aeginetic standard, as the following coins testify :
Circ. B.C. 411-378.
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Incuse square within which
EVB Head of nymph,
Euboea (?) r., hair rolled.
[Imhoof, Gr. M., Pl. I. 19.]
Bull recumbent l., head turned
back.
AR ginetic Stater 184 grs.
Head of nymph, hair rolled,
round ear- ring. [N. C.,
1892, Pl. XV. 12.]
Incuse square; EYB Bull
recumbent r.; above,
grapes.
AR ginetic Stater 182.6 grs.
The Aeginetic standard, however, took no firm root in Euboea, and from about B.C. 378,
when Eretria again joined the Athenian alliance, the coins once more follow the
Euboc-Attic weights.
Circ. B.C. 378 to the Macedonian conquest, B.C. 338.
Head of nymph, Euboea (?),
hair rolled.
[N. C., 1902, Pl. XV. 10;
Imhoof, Gr. M., Pl. I. 20.]
EYB Bull standing.
AR Euboc-Attic Tetradr.
Id. EYBOI Id. [Photiades Cat., Pl.
III. 452].
AR Euboc-Attic Tetradr.
XVII. 1-4.]
EYB or EYBOI Head and neck
of bull.
AR Euboc-Attic Dr. and Dr.
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Similar. [Imhoof, Mon. gr.,
224.]
EY or EYB Head and neck of
bull.
AR Obol.
Similar. [Ibid.] EY Bulls foot.
AR Obol.
Similar head, behind, E.
XVII. 9, 10.]
EYB Vine branch with two
bunches of grapes.
AR Diobol.
There are also small bronze coins with Eretrian types, Bulls head. Rev. Sepia; Bull
standing, Rev. Grapes; Head of Nymph, Rev. Bull's head. Inscr., %&', %&'(, &c., which
belong to this period (B. M. C., Cent. Gr., Pl. XVII. 11-14).
In the Macedonian period there are no Eretrian coins, but after the liberation of Greece
by Flamininus, they again became plentiful. Those of silver were struck in the name of
Eretria, but the bronze coins usually, but not always, with the inscr. %&'()%*+.
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Circ. B.C. 197-146.
Bust of Artemis, with bow and
quiver at her shoulder.
ERETPIEDN Ox standing.
Magis- strates names,
AAMAZIAZ [Ber- lin],
XAPIAAMOZ[B. M. C., Cent.
Gr., p. lxv]. The whole in
laurel wreath.
AR Tetradr.
FIG. 206.
Head of Artemis (Fig. 206). EPETPIEDN Ox recumbent.
AR Octobols.
Head of nymph.
XXIII. 11.]
Vine-branch
AR Tetrob.
Id. [Ibid., Pl. XXIII. 12.] Head and neck of bull.
AR Triob.
All these denominations bear a magistrates name in nom. case.
Veiled female head.
[Ibid., Pl. XXIII. 13.]
EPETPIEDN Ox recumbent.
Magis- trates name.
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Bull standing or recumbent,
and star.
XVII. 15, 16.]
EYBOIEDN Vine-branch with
two bunches of grapes and
star.
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Veiled female head.
[Ibid., Pl. XVII. 17.]
Bull butting.
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Id., facing. [Ibid., Pl. XVII.
18.]
Prow.
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Head of Hermes.
[Ibid., Pl. XVII. 19.]
Ear of corn.
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Imperial Times.
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Among the Imperial coins of Eretria the only one which calls for remark is a coin of
Commodus (N. C., 1902, p. 322), on the reverse of which is %#%,#)*+ and a bust
presenting three faces, that in the middle beardless and surmounted by a modius, the
others, right and left, male bearded profiles. This coin is suggestive of the cultus of the
Kabeiri, but see H. v. Fritze, Z. f. N., xxiv. 125.
Histiaea. The first coins which can be with certainty attributed to Histiaea belong to the
half-century before Alexander. Its interesting to note that the vines which had obtained
for the town, as early as Homers days, the epithet /'5$%&"1$5'( occupy an important
place on the coins. (R. Weil, Z. f. N., i. 183.)
M'berg WW SNG B ANS
Circ. B.C. 369-336.
Head of Maenad, wearing
vine-wreath.
XXIV. 1.]
IZTI Bull, standing before a
vine with grapes; symbol or
monogram in field.
AR Dr.
Id. [Ibid., Pl. XXIV. 3-5.] IZTI Bull, forepart of bull, or
bull's head and neck;
various symbols above.
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Circ. B.C. 313-265.
The next issue of Histiaean coins probably took place after the Euboean towns declared
themselves independent in B.C. 313, but it does not seem to have been of long duration.
Head of Maenad, with
vine-wreath; her hair in
sphendone. [Zeit. f. Num.,
i. p. 186; Photiades Cat.,
484.]
IZTIAIEDN Nymph Histiaea
with her name IZTIAIA,
seated on stern of galley
and holding a trophy-stand
or mast with yard (?)
AR Octobol 89 grs.
XXIV. 6.]
Id., without name of nymph.
AR Tetrob. 42 grs.
Id. [Hunter Cat., Pl. XXXIII.
14.]
IZTI Bull standing; behind,
vine.
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Id. [Ibid., Pl. XXIV. 8.] Bulls head and neck.
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Head of Dionysos, facing. Vine-branch.
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Circ. B.C. 197-146, and later (?).
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The silver coins of this time are remarkably abundant, and consist of tetrobols similar in
type to those of the previous century, but very carelessly executed and varying in weight
from 39 to 28 grs. The head of the Maenad is almost identical with that on
contemporaneous tetrobols of Macedonia, struck between B.C. 185 and 168 during the
reigns of Philip V and Perseus. In the Inventory of Demares, compiled B.C. 185-180 (Bull.
Corr. Hell., 1882, p. 35), these coins are called -%&0"0)" and "#6$#0'2 -%&0"0)'2. For
varieties see B. M. C., Cent. Gr., Pl. XXIV. The commonest bronze coins of this period are
the following :
Head of Maenad. IZTI Head and neck of bull,
horns filleted.
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Similar. [B. M. C., Cent. Gr.,
Pl. XXIV. 15, 16.]
IZTIAIEDN Grapes.
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Head of Apollo (?). Tripod.
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365
Uncertain Coins of Euboc weight. Sixth century B.C.
Scarabaeus.
[Babelon, Trait, p. 719.]
divided
AR Didrachm and Obol.
Id. [Imhoof and Keller, Tier-
und Pflanzenbilder, Pl. VII.
13.]
Id.
AR Obol.
Id. [Ibid., Pl. VII. 14.] Gorgoneion.
AR Size .4 Diob. (?)
Frog swimming. [Babelon,
Trait, Pl. XXXIII. 21, 22.]
divided.
AR Obol.
Amphora in plain circle.
[Brit. Mus. Guide, Pl. V. 22.]
Id.
AR Didr. 128 grs.
Triskeles in plain circle.
[N. C., 1888, Pl. V. 1, 2.]
Id.
AR Didr. 125 grs., Dr., and
Dr.
Astragalos in plain circle.
[N. C., 1903, Pl. X. 6.]
Id.
AR Didr. 130 grs.
These coins belong to the same class as those with the Wheel, attributed to Chalcis, the
Gorgoneion to Eretria, and the Horse to Cyme, &c.
14 di 14 23/03/10 16.08

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