Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . .. #€T09 8ta/cocrt<x9 Tecrcra(pa) .... . koX otl TTjv avve^peta(y) . . (aireo^reCKav TrevTcucoaias Kal tt? , 15 . . p7]fjLevr)S TTj? T£/^9 TMJ Kpe((OV) . - . . (rd\av ?)ra $vo § in.] COINS FOUND AT NOVUM ILIUM. 641 § III. The Coins found at Novum Ilium. By M. Achilles Postolaccas,Keeper of the National Collection of Coins at Athens. According to the testimony of the famous numismatologist Ec
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . .. #€T09 8ta/cocrt<x9 Tecrcra(pa) .... . koX otl TTjv avve^peta(y) . . (aireo^reCKav TrevTcucoaias Kal tt? , 15 . . p7]fjLevr)S TTj? T£/^9 TMJ Kpe((OV) . - . . (rd\av ?)ra $vo § in.] COINS FOUND AT NOVUM ILIUM. 641 § III. The Coins found at Novum Ilium. By M. Achilles Postolaccas,Keeper of the National Collection of Coins at Athens. According to the testimony of the famous numismatologist Eckhel,4all the known coins of Ilium belong to Novum Ilium, and are eitherautonomous or imperial. Of these, the autonomous are either of silver orcopper, and belong to the Macedonian period or to the succeeding times;the imperial coins occur only in bronze, and date from Augustus toGallienus and his wife Salonina. Of the autonomous silver coins we only know of tetradrachms of anartistic style, belonging to the Attic metrological system, bearing onone side the head of Athene with a three-crested helmet crowned withlaurel, and on the other side the legend A0HNAZ IAIAAOZ, the name of. No. 1481. the archon, and the image of the standing Athene holding on her rightshoulder a spear, and a distaff in her left hand;5 on the field are mono-grams and accessory symbols (No. 1481). The tetradrachms in questionwere struck, according to the illustrious Cavedoni,6 under the reign ofMithridates Eupator, king of Pontus and the Cimmerian Bosporus(123-64 ).7
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