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ANCIENT COINS. 



reached the place I began calling for coins ; one 

 or two very doubtful affairs were brought, but I 

 gave half a piastre for them, and said I would 

 do the same for any that suited me. During the 

 time I was there, I collected, I believe, between 

 forty and sixty, and put them away, and have 

 not seen them since I have been ill, — I will 

 tell you the number in a postscript.* Of these, 

 not one contained the usual symbol of the town I 

 was in search of ; but a very great many either 

 2EA or 2E, or 2 alone, and a Roman one had 

 SEArEQN on it. The mass of them had the 

 same reverse, viz. a bull-headed head of Hercules ; 

 and I should say, from memory, that nearly forty 

 of the batch may be identified, either by the 

 inscription or the reverse, with the town in 

 question. I got four little funny silver fellows 

 very much alike ; but though with the same 

 design, yet with a singular variation of features 

 in a full face on one side. Perhaps the follow- 



Jupiter, which was the Acropolis. (Polybius, v.) The fertility 

 of the district, its mountainous character, and position near 

 the sources of the Eurymedon and Cestrus, are mentioned by 

 Strabo (xii.), who bears testimony to the importance of Selge, 

 and the extent of the population. Arrian also writes of Selge 

 as a city of consequence. 

 * This was never written. 



