English Coins and Tokens, with a Chapter on Greek and Roman CoinsJewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
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English Coins and Tokens, with a Chapter on Greek and Roman Coins
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick William
Coins, British; Numismatics -- Great Britain; Tokens -- Great Britain
The Attic gold money was regulated according to the same standard of
weight as the silver. The gold unit of account was, however, not the
drachm, but the _stater_, as it was called, equivalent in weight to
the didrachm, and in value to 20 drachms of silver.
As a rule, the denomination of a Greek coin can only be determined by
weighing it. Marks of value occur, however, on the copper of Italy,
Sicily, etc.; but these coins follow a system foreign to Greece proper
(see below).
§ OF THE ARRANGEMENT OF A CABINET OF
GREEK COINS.
Greek coins are classified in all great collections in geographical
order, as follows:--The towns under each province should be arranged
alphabetically, for convenience of reference. We have only space here
to mention a few of the principal cities:--
EUROPE.
_Provinces._ _Cities_, _Islands_, _Tribes_, _Kings_, _etc._
SPAIN.
Lusitania Emerita.
Bætica Carteia, Gades.
Tarraconensis Emporiæ, Osca, Rhoda, etc.
GAUL.
Aquitania Arverni.
Narbonensis Massilia, Nemausus.
Lugdunensis Lugdunum.
Belgica
BRITAIN. Atrebates, etc., Camulodunum.
ITALIA.
Etruria Populonia.
Umbria Tuder.
Picenum Hatria.
Vestini
Latium Roma.
Samnium Beneventum.
Frentani Larinum.
Campania Capua, Cumæ, Neapolis, Nola.
Apulia Arpi, Cælia, Teate, Venusia.
Calabria Brundusium, Tarentum.
Lucania Metapotum, Posidonia, Thurium, Velia.
Bruttii Croton, Locri, Rhegium, Terina.
SICILY. Agrigentum, Camarina, Gela, Himera,
Leontini, Messana, Naxos, Segesta, Selinus,
and Syracuse.
_Kings, etc., of_ Agathocles, Hicetas, Hiero II., Philistis,
Gelo, Hieronymus.
Siculo-Punic Solus, Motya, Panormus.
_Islands of Sicily_ Lipara, Sardinia.
TAURIC CHERSONESE Panticapæum.
SARMATIA Olbia, Tyra.
DACIA.
MŒSIA SUPERIOR Viminacium.
MŒSIA INFERIOR Istrus, Marcianopolis, Nicopolis, Tomi.
THRACE Abdera, Ænus, Byzantium, Maronea,
Perinthus, Philippopolis.
THRACIAN CHERSONESE Cardia, Cœla, Lysimachia.
_Kings of Thrace_ Seuthes, etc., Rhœmetalces, etc.
_Islands of Thrace_ Imbros, Lemnos, Samothrace, Thasos.
PÆONIA, _Kings_ Lycceius, Patraus, Audoleon.
MACEDON, _Cities_ Acanthus, Amphipolis, Chalcidice, Lete,
Neapolis, Pella, Philippi, Pydna, Thessalonica.
_Tribes_ Bisaltæ, Orrescii.
_Kings of_ Alexander I., Perdiccas II., Archelaus I.,
Amyntas III., Philip II., Alexander the
Great, Philip III., Cassander, Lysimachus,
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