IN THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 107 



3. Histiaea in Euboea. Obverse — Female head to r.. with ear-drop. 

 Reverse — Fortune seated on a prow holding a sail : on the prow a 

 fulmen or thunderbolt.* In the exergue I^TI. Some letters verti- 

 cally at the back of the figure, probably intended for AION, iu 

 continuation of I2TI. Half-drachma. Weight — 1 dwt 11 grs. 



4. Leucas in A.carnania, a colony of Corinth. Obverse — Pegasus 

 with rounded wings. Reverse — the same repeated. Underneath — A. 

 The A may denote Locri Epizephyrii.f Quarter-drachma or obol. 

 Weight — 13 grs. 



.'), Neapolis in Campania. Obverse — Fine head of Artemis;}; to 1., 

 with ear-drop, and filleted : behind the neck an ivy-leaf and berries. 

 Reverse — Victory crowning a human-faced bull § Behind — 1^.\\ In 



exergue HOAIT., z'.e. NEOnOAITfiN*^ Didrachma. Weight 



— 4 dwt. 9 grs 



* Fortune on the prow holding a sail, alludes to the etymology of Histiaea, 

 viz. : "ffTov, a sail. This city, according to the list given in II. ij. sent ships 

 to Troy. The epithet ■jroXva-Ta.ipvXos, rich in grapes, is there applied to it. The 

 place was at a later period called Oreus, and Oropus. 



f " Locri Epizephyrii in Bruttiis agnati sunt Corcyraeis, et per hos Corinthiis, 

 quornm extant et aerei numi cum typo Palladis et pegasi." Rasche, Lex. Rei 

 Num. Vol iv., p. 1814 



X The epigraph APTEMI2 occurs on coins of Naples described in Rasche, 

 v. 1130. 



§ This figure symbolizes either the sun, which the people of Naples are said to 

 have worshipped under the imag-e of a bull with a human face and called Hebon, 

 or the Vulturnus, the principal river of Campania, The Tiber is styled (.^Ea- 

 viii 77.) Corniger Hesperidum fluvius regnator aquarum. 



I These letters, denoting an artist's name, are seen on many Neapolitan coins 

 in Rasche, vol. v., 1138. 



Tf A city, poetically called Parthenope, was " founded originally by the 

 Cumoei ; but afterwards being peopled by Chalcidians, and certain Pithecus- 

 saeans and Athenians, it was on this account denominated Neapolis.'' Strabo, 

 v. 4, 7 ; i.e. Parthenope became Palaeopolis the old city ; and the new settlement 

 situated a little to the west of the old one, acquired the name of Neapolis. new 

 city. The epigraph is nearly always NEO-, not NEA-nOAITON on the coins, 

 shewing that Neapolis was long regarded as a common, not a proper name ; as 

 doubtless " New College," Oxford, (properly St. Mary's) was. NeoiroAlrris is new 

 burgher, — not a citizen of Newburg. This would be NeaTroAfrijs, as is read on a 

 few coins in Rasche. [On two or three the epigraph is Nei/TroX., suggestive of 

 Neu-borac-um as not an improper substitute for the rather awkward Neo- 

 Eborac-um, usually given as the latinized form of " New York."] 



