226 ANCIENT AND MODERN COINS 



DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF COINS, ANCIENT AND 



MODERN, IN THE COLLECTION OF THE CANADIAN 



INSTITUTE. 



(Continued from No, L. page 105.) 



BY THE REV. DR. SCADDING, 



IIBaABIAir TO THE INSTITUTE. 



No. 2. 

 GREEK corns.— (Continued.) 



II. COPPER. 



(a) of autonomous cities. 



1 . Abydos. Obv. Head wreathed to r. Rev. Eagle* Leg. ABY.f 

 Weight— li dwts. 



2. Abydos. Obv. Head, Rev, Amphora. Leg. AB (reversed.)^: 

 Weight — 5 dwts, 



3. Aegium.§ Obv. Head of Pallas to r. Rev. Victory with 

 wreath. In the field a Tortoise, || and monogram AI repeated in re- 

 verse order. Weight — 8^ dwts. 



4. ^tnaea.^ Obv. Head of Ceres to r. Rev. Cornu copiae.** 

 Leg. AITNAK2N. Weight— 2 dwts. 



5. Apamea on the Orontes.ft Obv. Head of Jove laureated, to 1. 

 Rev. A fulmen. Leg. All. in a wreath of wheat-ears. Weight — 

 3 dwts. 



* " Aquilse causa incerta." — Eckhel ii. 478. 



t " Qua per angustas vectae male virginis undas 



Seston Abydena separat urbe fretum." — Trist, i. x. 28. 



t This coin is very much worn. The AB may denote the Muria gens. 



§ "Achaiae nobilissima urbs quo non Achaei solum, sed universi Peloponnesii 

 conveniebant, publicis de rebus consultaturi." — Rasche i. 113. 



II " Testudo reptat in numis Aegiorum, qui numi sunt antiquissimi."— Rasche 

 ix. 913. 



IT "Stadiis Ixxx. a Catana dissita."— r»i« Strabo, vi, c, ii. 3. 



•• " Aetnae montis cineres regionem vicinam reddebant feracem." — Rasch i. 

 246. 



tt Seleucus Nicator so named this place (previously called "Pella" by the 

 Syro-Macedonians) after his wife Apam6, and built there a magnificent Temple 

 to Jove, professing to be descended from him, B.C. 291. 



