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306 The Lycian Symbol and the Kyklops

scarce specimens of pre-Solonian coinage at Athens1. The Thraco-
Macedonian tribe of Derrones added palmettes between the legs2
(fig. 240). The Pisidians of Selge3 (fig. 241) and the Lucanians of

Fig. 238. Fig. 239. Fig. 240.

Velia4 fitted the ankles with wings. Elsewhere the humanising
tendency transformed the central disk into a face5. That was the
case in Sicily6. Silver and copper coins of Agathokles, issued

Fig. 24r. Fig. 242. Fig. 243. Fig. 244.

between 317 and 310 B.C., have for their reverse type a triskeles
with wings attached to the feet and a Gorgon's head in the middle7

1 Supra p. 305 n. 6.

2 Brit. Mus,. Cat. Coins Macedonia etc. p. 150, Babelon Monn. gr. rom. ii. 1. 1039 ff.
pi. 44, 6—9, Head Hist, num.1* p. 202. I figure the specimen in the McClean collection
at Cambridge.

3 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lycia etc. pp. lxxiii, 263 pi. 40, 12.

4 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Italy p. 314 f., Carelli Num. It. vet. p. 74 pi. 139, 42
(symbol).

5 At Istros in Lower Moesia occurs the strange type of two young male heads in
juxtaposition, one of the two being upside down {Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Thrace etc.
p. 25 f., Head Hist, num.2 p. 274). Head id.1 p. 235 held that this design 'probably
refers to the cult of the Dioskuri, which was very prevalent on the coasts of the Euxine,'
but id.'2 p. 274 suggests that it ' may be meant for the rising and the setting sun-god' and
compares ' the rayless Helios on the early coins of Rhodes.' Since other coins of Istros
show a four-spoked wheel (Append. D), I would rather conjecture that the two heads in
question are a naive attempt to represent the face of the sun-god in actual rotation.

6 Babelon Monn. rip. rom. i. 192 a bronze coin of M. Antonius showing as symbol a
triskelds, the central dot of which is marked like a face: the coin is of Sicilian mintage.

7 G. F. Hill Coins of Ancient Sicily p. 155 pi. 11, 10 (my fig. 242), Brit. Mus.
Cat. Coins Sicily p. 193.