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Peloponnesian coin-types of Zeus Lykaios 69

sented as standing with himdtion, sceptre and eagle (fig. 45)1. After
the victory of Epameinondas at Leuktra in 371 B.C. the Arcadian
League was reconstituted and issued coins with the types* of Zeus

Fig. 43. Fig. 44. Fig. 45.

Lykaios and Pan Lykaios*1. The obverse design of the silver stater
(fig. 46) is a magnificent head of Zeus wearing a bay-wreath: the
reverse (figs. 47, 48) is Pan seated on a rock, over which he has

Fig. 46. Fig. 47. Fig. 48. Fig. 49.

spread his cloak ; he is human except for his horns and holds in
his right hand a throwing-stick (lagobolou), while a pipe (syrinx)
lies at his feet. The rock is inscribed Oly- (OAY) or Olym-
(OAYM)3, and in one die (fig. 49) Chari- (XAPI)4. There can be no
doubt that the laureate head is that of Zeus Lykaios. It used to

1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 169 pi. 31, 10 (fig. 45), Babelon Monn. gr.
rom. ii. i. 849 f. pi. 38, 18. F. Imhoof-Blumer publishes a similar specimen in his
Choix de monn. gr. 1871 pi. 2, 79 and in the Zeitschr. f. Num. 1876 iii. 292 pi. 7, 7.

2 On Pan Atkcuos see Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 2168, 20 ff., iii. 1350 f.

3 Head Hist, num? pp. 444 f., 450, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus pp. lix, 173,
pi. 32, 10, P. Gardner Types of Gk. Coins pi. 8, 32 and 37, Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth.
Zeus pp. 93, 105 f., G. F. Hill Historical Greek Coins London 1906 p. 72 f., pi. 5, 37.
Figs. 46—47 and fig. 48 are drawn from two specimens in the British Museum.

4 F. Imhoof-Blumer in the Zeitschr. f. Num. 1874 i. 128 n. 3, ib. 1876 iii. 288 f. pi.
7, 1 (in the Hague collection), cp. ib. 1875 ii. 6, 139ff., 246 ff., and in the Num. Zeitschr.
1884 xvi. 264 pi. 5, 7 (at Klagenfurt, from the same die). I figure the latter specimen.