Head, Barclay V.: Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887)

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ETRURIA.

compared with silver must have taken place similar to that which occurred
in Sicily about the middle of the fourth century B. c. (Wk^. Chron.,
1874, P- 74)-
It is further noticeable that the smallest denomination which has a
mark of value, Al I, is, in the second period, only slightly heavier than the
Roman sestertius, which also bears the mark of value 2| IIS. Hence it
may be inferred that the Etrurian silver of class (/3) extended from circ.
b. c. 350-269, when it was superseded by the Roman silver then coined
for the first time, the system adopted by the Romans being a slight modi-
fication of that which then prevailed in Etruria. The silver coins of
class (a) are, of course, previous to B. c. 350, some of them belonging to the
archaic period, while others are comparatively of recent style.

(y) Coreyrean (?) (Aeginetic degraded) or Persic Standard.

Head of Zeus (?)
Head of Apollo A
Id.
Gorgon-head.

Plain. (B. M. Cat., Ital., p. 13.) . .
Al 173 grs.
Id. (Z6., p. 12.) . . Ad 175 grs.
Wheel. (Sambon, op. cit., p. 51, 40.) .
Al 175 grs.
Crescent. (Deecke, op. cit., p. 14, 15.)
Al 84 grs.

The unit on which these coins are based appears to have been about
36 grs. of silver, or twice the weight of the Roman scripulum.

Running Gorgon, holding in each hand
a serpent.

0EII Wheel. (Fig. 7-)

Ad 172 grs.


Fig. 7.


0Elb Male head facing; above and
below, a serpent.

Sphinx. (Deecke, 071. cit., Pl. II. 16.)
JR 84 grs.

OEIhE Cow’s head.

Sea-horse. (Fig. 8.) . . Jd 144 grs.


Fig. 8.