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BRUTT1UM.
The Lex Plautia Papiria b.c. 89, De asse semunciali (Plin. Hist. Nat.
xxxiii. 3, 46), introduced by C. Papirius Carbo, put an end to the coinage
of bronze in the few Confederate towns in Italy which were at that
time still coining in their own names, Paestum alone excepted.
Locri Epizephyrii. Although Locri was from the first a flourishing
city, and, from the time of Dionysius the Elder even predominant in
the Bruttian peninsula, nevertheless, strange to say, it has left us no
coins whatever which can be attributed to the period of its greatest
prosperity. Whether the Laws of Zaleucus, which are said to have been
in force at Locri down to a late date, forbade, like those of Lycurgus, the
use of coined money we do not know, but it is certain that there are no
Locrian coins earlier than the middle of the fourth century.
The Locrian silver money is of two entirely distinct classes, differing
from one another both in type and weight, (a) Corinthian staters of the
Pegasos type, wt. 135-130 grs., and (/3) staters of native Locrian types,
which follow the standard of the neighbouring towns, wt. 120-115 grs.
I. ftk b.c. 344-332,
(a) Corinthian staters for foreign commerce.
AOKPRN Head of Pallas in Corin- I Pegasos . . . . 2R 135-130 grs.
thian helmet.
The Corinthian stater was adopted as the standard silver coin of
Syracuse on the occasion of the restoration of the Democracy by Timo-
leon, b. c. 345 (see Syracuse). Locri, which was at all times most
intimately connected both politically and commercially with Syracuse,
appears to have coined money in her own name for the first time at this
period, and to have received the Corinthian stater from Syracuse, with
which city as well as with Corinth and her colonies in Acarnania,
Corcyra, and Illyria, Locri then contracted de facto a monetary alliance.
. The Corinthian staters of Locri are by no means rare coins, and are
found mixed with those of other cities. This shows that Locri carried on
an extensive foreign commerce in the direction indicated above.
Meanwhile for her home trade with the Italian towns it was necessary
to strike money on the Italic standard.
(/3) Italic standard for home trade. Staters wt. 120-115 grs.
IEY£ Head of Zeus, laur., with short * EIPHNH AOKPRN Eirene seated 011
hair (Fig. 58). | square cippus, holding caduceus.
The reverse type of this coin points to the beginning of an era of
internal peace and prosperity, such as that which may well have followed
BRUTT1UM.
The Lex Plautia Papiria b.c. 89, De asse semunciali (Plin. Hist. Nat.
xxxiii. 3, 46), introduced by C. Papirius Carbo, put an end to the coinage
of bronze in the few Confederate towns in Italy which were at that
time still coining in their own names, Paestum alone excepted.
Locri Epizephyrii. Although Locri was from the first a flourishing
city, and, from the time of Dionysius the Elder even predominant in
the Bruttian peninsula, nevertheless, strange to say, it has left us no
coins whatever which can be attributed to the period of its greatest
prosperity. Whether the Laws of Zaleucus, which are said to have been
in force at Locri down to a late date, forbade, like those of Lycurgus, the
use of coined money we do not know, but it is certain that there are no
Locrian coins earlier than the middle of the fourth century.
The Locrian silver money is of two entirely distinct classes, differing
from one another both in type and weight, (a) Corinthian staters of the
Pegasos type, wt. 135-130 grs., and (/3) staters of native Locrian types,
which follow the standard of the neighbouring towns, wt. 120-115 grs.
I. ftk b.c. 344-332,
(a) Corinthian staters for foreign commerce.
AOKPRN Head of Pallas in Corin- I Pegasos . . . . 2R 135-130 grs.
thian helmet.
The Corinthian stater was adopted as the standard silver coin of
Syracuse on the occasion of the restoration of the Democracy by Timo-
leon, b. c. 345 (see Syracuse). Locri, which was at all times most
intimately connected both politically and commercially with Syracuse,
appears to have coined money in her own name for the first time at this
period, and to have received the Corinthian stater from Syracuse, with
which city as well as with Corinth and her colonies in Acarnania,
Corcyra, and Illyria, Locri then contracted de facto a monetary alliance.
. The Corinthian staters of Locri are by no means rare coins, and are
found mixed with those of other cities. This shows that Locri carried on
an extensive foreign commerce in the direction indicated above.
Meanwhile for her home trade with the Italian towns it was necessary
to strike money on the Italic standard.
(/3) Italic standard for home trade. Staters wt. 120-115 grs.
IEY£ Head of Zeus, laur., with short * EIPHNH AOKPRN Eirene seated 011
hair (Fig. 58). | square cippus, holding caduceus.
The reverse type of this coin points to the beginning of an era of
internal peace and prosperity, such as that which may well have followed