228 ANCIENT AND MODERN COINS 



to r. Rev. Small human figure, club and quiver. Leg. KE4». 

 Weight— 4 dwts. 



13. Chalcis* in Euboea. Obv. Female head laureated, to r. Rer., 

 An eagle with a kid in its talons. Weight — 4 dwts. 



14. Gelaf in Sicily. Obv. A youthful head filleted, to r. Rev. 

 A bull butting, to 1. In exergue, three globules.^ Weight — 2 dwts. 



15. Leucas in Acarnania. Obv. Head of Hercules, to r. Rev. 

 An armed rostrum. In field .... Leg Weight — 3 dwts. 



16. Messana. Obv. Head of Apollo laureated, to r. Rev Warrior 

 with spear and shield, seated on rocks. Leg. MAMEPTINJ1N.§ 

 Weight — 6^ dwts. 



17. Messana. II Obv. Veiled head, to 1. Rev, Delphic tripod- 

 Leg. MES. Weight— 2i dwts. 



18. Pergamus in Mysia. Obv. A youthful head laureated, to r. 

 Rev. In field EPY<E>IAf2 HPO TOY IIEP.t Weight— 1 dwt. 



19. Rhegium. Obv. Head of Proserpine, to r. Rev. A lyre. 

 Leg. in two lines: PHPINfiN. A ligature of PHP. Weight— 

 4^ dwts. 



20. Rhegium. Obv. Head of Proserpine, to r. Rev. A warrior 

 with spear in left hand ; in the r, an eagle or dove. Leg. PHPINON. 

 Weight — 4J dwts. 



this fish as seen from an eminence on the Sicilian coast. The modern name df 

 Oephaloedium is Cefalu. 



• Situate where the bridge crossed the Euripus ; now Negroponte, whence the 

 whole island has its name. 



t " Gela inter primores Siciliae urbes veteres fuit celeberrima." — Basche, iii. 

 1338. Ten-a Nuova now stands on its site. 



t " Globuli tres in numis Romanorum aereis quartam assis partem denotant, 

 tres uncias valere quadrantem. Tria puncta seu globuli in Sicula moneta per 

 aream obvii, pretium itidem vel pondus arguunt." — See Rasche, iii. 1459. 



§ Messana was occupied in B.C. 270 by Mamertines, i.e. Mercenaries, dis- 

 charged from the service of Syracuse. 



II Anciently Dancle and Zancle. In the 5th century BO., taken by emigrants 

 from Messenia in Pelopounesus, and named the " City of the Messenii." 



IT On a coin described by Rasche (iii. 821), the orthography of the legend is 

 different. It there reads, ETPTnTAOS HPflS- This Eurypylus was the son of 

 Telaphus, the founder of a colony at Pergamus. " Pausanias a Telepho ex 

 Arcadia deductam Pergamum coloniam tradit; in cujus originis memoriam 

 primi conditoris sui filius, Eurypylus, Telephi filius, seu Telephides, olim circa 

 Pergamenum agrum dynaata, publico acre a Pergamenis signatus est," — Rasche, 

 iii. 821. 



