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P ANDO SI A — RHEGIUM.
91
Soon after B. c. 400 Pandosia was captured by the Bruttians. It was in
the neighbourhood of this place that Alexander the Molossian lost his
life in b.c. 326 (Strabo, vi. 256; Livy, viii. 24). Pandosia is again
mentioned as a Bruttian town B. c. 204 (Livy, xxix. 38), but no Pandosian
coins are known after its first capture by the Bruttians b.c. 400-390.
Peripolium was an outpost of the Locrians on the frontier of their
territory towards Rhegium. It appears to have been occupied late in the
fourth century (the date of its coins) by a colony of Pitanatae, presumably
from Pitane in Laconia.
Head of Hera (?) wearing stephane. I PEPIPOAfllM PITANATAN
I Herakles strangling lion . Ad 10 grs.
Mommsen attributes these coins to Samnium on the strength of a
passage in Strabo (v. p. 250), who states that a Laconian colony, by some
thought to consist of Pitanatae, was established in Samnium.
It may be thought that the reverse-type is somewhat in favour of
Mommsen’s attribution; but when it is remembered that no silver coins
of Samnium are known, and that no town of the name of Peripolium is
mentioned except the strong fortress of the Locrians, it seems safer on
the whole to ascribe the coins to Bruttium.
Fetelia, about twelve miles north of Croton, was in early times
dependent upon that city. Subsequently it passed into the power of the
Lucanians (Strab. vi. 1), and then into that of the Bruttians. Its
coinage begins early in the third century, under the Bruttian dominion.
Circ. B.c. 280-216.
Head of Demeter veiled.
Head of Apollo.
Head of Artemis.
Head of Herakles.
nETHAlNflN Zeus naked
hurling
fulinen
Hl .85
„ Tripod .
Hl -7-5
,, Dog running
ZE -5
„ Club
N .45
During the Second Punic Wai* Petelia adhered firmly to the Roman
alliance in spite of the defection of the Bruttians, and was rewarded by
the Romans after the conclusion of the war by being allowed to retain
special privileges, among which was the right of coining in bronze on
the Roman Semuncial system.
Circ. b. c. 204-89 (?).
Quadrans. Head of Zeus. . •
Sextans. „ . ,
„ Head of Apollo. . .
5’ 55 • 4
Uncia. Head of bearded Ares. .
PETHAlNnN
Zeus thundering,
F ulmen.
55
Artemis with torch.
Stag running.
Nike standing.
Rhegium, on the Sicilian Straits, was in the main a Chalcidian colony
with a dominant Messenian element. It was one of the cities in which
the philosophy of Pythagoras took the deepest root, and it may be to the
influence of the Pythagorean confraternity that its participation in the
incuse coinage of the early Achaean monetary confederacy is owing.
91
Soon after B. c. 400 Pandosia was captured by the Bruttians. It was in
the neighbourhood of this place that Alexander the Molossian lost his
life in b.c. 326 (Strabo, vi. 256; Livy, viii. 24). Pandosia is again
mentioned as a Bruttian town B. c. 204 (Livy, xxix. 38), but no Pandosian
coins are known after its first capture by the Bruttians b.c. 400-390.
Peripolium was an outpost of the Locrians on the frontier of their
territory towards Rhegium. It appears to have been occupied late in the
fourth century (the date of its coins) by a colony of Pitanatae, presumably
from Pitane in Laconia.
Head of Hera (?) wearing stephane. I PEPIPOAfllM PITANATAN
I Herakles strangling lion . Ad 10 grs.
Mommsen attributes these coins to Samnium on the strength of a
passage in Strabo (v. p. 250), who states that a Laconian colony, by some
thought to consist of Pitanatae, was established in Samnium.
It may be thought that the reverse-type is somewhat in favour of
Mommsen’s attribution; but when it is remembered that no silver coins
of Samnium are known, and that no town of the name of Peripolium is
mentioned except the strong fortress of the Locrians, it seems safer on
the whole to ascribe the coins to Bruttium.
Fetelia, about twelve miles north of Croton, was in early times
dependent upon that city. Subsequently it passed into the power of the
Lucanians (Strab. vi. 1), and then into that of the Bruttians. Its
coinage begins early in the third century, under the Bruttian dominion.
Circ. B.c. 280-216.
Head of Demeter veiled.
Head of Apollo.
Head of Artemis.
Head of Herakles.
nETHAlNflN Zeus naked
hurling
fulinen
Hl .85
„ Tripod .
Hl -7-5
,, Dog running
ZE -5
„ Club
N .45
During the Second Punic Wai* Petelia adhered firmly to the Roman
alliance in spite of the defection of the Bruttians, and was rewarded by
the Romans after the conclusion of the war by being allowed to retain
special privileges, among which was the right of coining in bronze on
the Roman Semuncial system.
Circ. b. c. 204-89 (?).
Quadrans. Head of Zeus. . •
Sextans. „ . ,
„ Head of Apollo. . .
5’ 55 • 4
Uncia. Head of bearded Ares. .
PETHAlNnN
Zeus thundering,
F ulmen.
55
Artemis with torch.
Stag running.
Nike standing.
Rhegium, on the Sicilian Straits, was in the main a Chalcidian colony
with a dominant Messenian element. It was one of the cities in which
the philosophy of Pythagoras took the deepest root, and it may be to the
influence of the Pythagorean confraternity that its participation in the
incuse coinage of the early Achaean monetary confederacy is owing.