The histdiians Pliny niul Li\ y .is wril as Cicero <ji\e 

 accounts of the treniendons treasures lir(iii'_;ht to 

 Rome by her \ictorious generals. PHnv stales that 

 Servillius '■removed, in neeordanee with the rii^hts dl' 

 war and his powers as General, horn the enemv eiiv 

 that his slrengtlt and \ali)r liad capluretl. statues antl 

 objects of art which he brought hoa.e to his eountrv- 



depcjsits in lh<- I leraion in Samos, in ihi- Ancunsion 

 ni Ephesus, and in the shrines of Delos, Delphi, and 

 Olviiiphia, "ifie niuscinns of anticiuity.'" -■ Juhus 

 Sehldssei alliiiiis that ihr treasuries of the gods became, 

 in la( I, piil.hc piopeii\ and that, in a particnlar sense, 

 tlir Irrnple-shiines and dieir territories could be ( on- 

 sitlered the oldest pulilic iiiuseunis.-" 



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"ig. 2. — SvRACCSAN DiKAURAOHM cnpii',.! ml a kvHx 

 from dales (photos cuurlesy MuseLUii of fine Arts. 

 Boston, above, and American Nuniisniahc Socielyj. 



men, displayed them in his triumphal procession, aiul 

 had them entered in the ollicial catalog of the ptiblie 

 treasure."'-' Clcrtainly among such bootv w.is 

 money — that is, cinns. Larger coin accuniul.ilions 

 already had been recorded in earlier limes, wliiai 

 pious pilgrims deposited jMeeions i^ills in the s.iiu - 

 turaries of temples.-^ Ernest B.ibelon ( .illed these 



2' Cicero, r<Tr/«,- Omlimn, i. 21. 57. 



2^ See the discussion on deposits of (f)ins and pret ions ohjct is 

 in the foundations of the .Artemision in Eplu-SMS in Ruhi.nsci.n. 

 '•The Date of the Earliest Coins" (l')=i()). 



1 he coin ils oi i'_;iii ,ind essence w.is a i.ivoiite 

 snbjei I dis( iisscd ollen by (heek philosophers. 

 .\i islolii's dihiiilioii of the coin .is an inL;ot of spe- 

 cific inlrinsic content, with a legal \,ilue delernhued 

 by the stale, .ind i'l.ilo's rejeclion ol yold coin. me in 

 l,i\or ol copper .iic ihcoiies which h.nc siiniiilaled 

 decpK till' thinking ol ec mioinisls ,nid hisloii.nis since 

 anciiiit times. ■'• 



-'■ Kahj roN, '/ i,nl,'. vol. 1, (ol. ()S. 



-'■' Sfrni.fissrH, luinsi- uf}<l \V lauUi kammin: , p. -t. 



-" (aiNNAKIi. l)tutuni'\ uu'ui'ta'iu-s (I'J.^t). 



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