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and nothing more. The same design recurs at Selge1, Etenna2, and
Adada3 in Pisidia ; at Hierapytna4 in Crete ; in Melos5, at Athens6,

Fig. 235. Fig. 236. Fig. 237.

in Aigina7, at Phlious8; at Syracuse9; at Kaulonia10 and Terina11 in
Bruttium ; at Suessa Aurunca12 in Latium ; and probably elsewhere
too13 (fig. 238). Some of these examples exhibit a well-marked
central disk ; for instance, a recently discovered silver coin of Melos14
c. 500—450 B.C. (fig. 239), a unicum of Aigina c. 480 B.C.15, or certain

Kojiki and Nihongi tradition see N. Gordon Munro in the Transactions of the Asiatic
Society of Japan 1911 xxxviii. 51 fig. 40, 63.

1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lycia etc. pp. cxv f. 258 f. pi. 39, 10—13, Head Hist, num.2
p. 711.

2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lycia etc. p. cxix, Head Hist, num.2 p. 708.

3 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lycia etc. p. cxvii pi. 30, 2f., Head Hist, num.2 p. 705.

4 J. N. Svoronos Numismatique de la Crete ancienne Macon 1890 i. 188 pi. 17, 6,
Head Hist, num.2, p. 468.

5 Infra n. 14.

6 Babelon Monn. gr. rom. ii. 1. 717 f. pi. 33, to ff. notes other examples of the
triskeUs occurring at Athens, on lead tokens and small bronze counters. On the pre-
Solonian silver coinage it is inscribed in a circle.

7 Infra n. 15.

8 Babelon Monn. gr. rom. ii. 1. 718, 811 ff. pi. 33, 12, Head Hist, num.2 p. 408.

9 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Sicily p. 191 ff., ib. Corinth etc. p. 98 f. pi. 25, 5—9, Head
Hist, num.2 p. 180 f. G. F. Hill Coins of Ancient Sicily London 1903 p. 152 f. suggests
that the triskeles, which appears first on the coins of Agathokles, from 317 B.C. onwards,
was originally his private signet, adopted at a later date, perhaps by the Romans, as the
emblem of all Sicily. Cp. Hill ib. p. 152 ff. fig. 44 pi. 11, 8, 9 and 14, Babelon Monti,
re'p. rom. i. 191, 351 f., 401 ff., 414, 427,11. 7 (no. 175), 66, 277 f., 499, 539. A. Allienus,
proconsul in Sicily in 48 B.C., struck a denarius, which shows Trinacrus, son of Neptunus,
holding the triskelis in his hand: see Hill op. cit. p. 224^ pi. 15, 5, Babelon Monn. re'p.
rom. i. 137 f., ii. 13.

10 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Italy p. 336, Garrucci Mon. It. ant. p. 157 pi. 111,-30.

11 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Italy p. 393, Carelli Num. It. vet. p. 99 pi. 179, '35 f. (symbol).

12 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Italy p. 123, Carelli Num. It. vet. p. 17 pi. 64, 7 (symbol).

13 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Italy p. 57 aes grave of uncertain provenience, Garrucci Mon.
It. ant. p. 23 pi. 45, 4.

14 From the specimen in the McClean collection at Cambridge: obv. pomegranate ;

rev. triskele's with central disk in dotted circle AA/AAI [,..]• See R. Jameson in the
Rev. Num. iv Serie 1909 xii. 192 ff. pi. 5, 11 and pi. 6, 25, Head Hist, num.2 p. 892.

15 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Attica etc. p. 136 pi. 24, 8, Babelon Monn.gr. rom. ii. 1.
657 ff., 813 ff. pi. 30, 20, Head Hist, num.2 pp. 397, 408. Babelon and Head following
J. P. Six in the Num. Chron. Third Series 1888 viii. 97 regard the coin as proof of an
alliance between Aigina and Phlious.

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