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BRUTTIUM.
Tetras.
Heads of Asklepios and
P H TI ND. N Artemis standing with
dog. I
Hygieia, jugate.
Head of Artemis.
Heads of Dioskuri.
Lyre. Illi
Demeter standing. Illi
Hermes standing. Illi
Young Asklepios stand¬
ing, holds bird and
branch and rests on
Trias.
55
55
Head of Apollo.
Head of Apollo.
Head of Apollo.
Head of Asklepios.
55
55
55
staff. Illi
Hygieia standing. I I 1
Wolf. I I I
0)
Nike.
Dioskuri on horse¬
back. X I I
The marks of value on these bronze coins seem to stand for fractions
of the silver litra, cf. the coins of the Mamertini. The weights and sizes,
which are very various, show that there must have been a rapid
reduction in the course of the century to which they belong (Momm.
Hist. Mon. Rom., i. p. 138 sq.). See also Garucci (Ann. de Num., 1882,
p. 213 sqq.).
Temesa was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Bruttium.
In its territory were mines of copper (Od. i. 184 ; Strab. vi. 1). From its
coin-type, a helmet and greaves, it might be inferred that the Temesaeans
excelled in the manufacture of bronze armour.
It also appears from its coins to have been closely allied to, if not
a dependency of, Croton about b.c. 500, after which it has left us no
numismatic records re¬
Tripod between two greaves. | TEM Helmet ... At 120 grs.
For alliance coins, see Croton, p. 80.
Terina, a few miles south of Temesa on the gulf of Hipponium, was a
colony of Croton. Its coinage commences about b.c. 480, before which
time it was doubtless dependent upon its metropolis. In common with
so many other towns of south Italy, Terina fell a victim to the rapacity
of Dionysius of Syracuse, circ. b.c. 388, by whom it was ceded to the
Locrians. It afterwards passed successively under the dominion of the
Lucanians (b.c. 365) and the Bruttians (b.c. 356) who held it, except for
a brief interval when Alexander of Epirus released it from their yoke
(circ. B.c. 325), down to b.c. 272.
The town was burnt by Hannibal in b.c. 203.
Circ. B. c. 480-470.
Fig. 64.
BRUTTIUM.
Tetras.
Heads of Asklepios and
P H TI ND. N Artemis standing with
dog. I
Hygieia, jugate.
Head of Artemis.
Heads of Dioskuri.
Lyre. Illi
Demeter standing. Illi
Hermes standing. Illi
Young Asklepios stand¬
ing, holds bird and
branch and rests on
Trias.
55
55
Head of Apollo.
Head of Apollo.
Head of Apollo.
Head of Asklepios.
55
55
55
staff. Illi
Hygieia standing. I I 1
Wolf. I I I
0)
Nike.
Dioskuri on horse¬
back. X I I
The marks of value on these bronze coins seem to stand for fractions
of the silver litra, cf. the coins of the Mamertini. The weights and sizes,
which are very various, show that there must have been a rapid
reduction in the course of the century to which they belong (Momm.
Hist. Mon. Rom., i. p. 138 sq.). See also Garucci (Ann. de Num., 1882,
p. 213 sqq.).
Temesa was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Bruttium.
In its territory were mines of copper (Od. i. 184 ; Strab. vi. 1). From its
coin-type, a helmet and greaves, it might be inferred that the Temesaeans
excelled in the manufacture of bronze armour.
It also appears from its coins to have been closely allied to, if not
a dependency of, Croton about b.c. 500, after which it has left us no
numismatic records re¬
Tripod between two greaves. | TEM Helmet ... At 120 grs.
For alliance coins, see Croton, p. 80.
Terina, a few miles south of Temesa on the gulf of Hipponium, was a
colony of Croton. Its coinage commences about b.c. 480, before which
time it was doubtless dependent upon its metropolis. In common with
so many other towns of south Italy, Terina fell a victim to the rapacity
of Dionysius of Syracuse, circ. b.c. 388, by whom it was ceded to the
Locrians. It afterwards passed successively under the dominion of the
Lucanians (b.c. 365) and the Bruttians (b.c. 356) who held it, except for
a brief interval when Alexander of Epirus released it from their yoke
(circ. B.c. 325), down to b.c. 272.
The town was burnt by Hannibal in b.c. 203.
Circ. B. c. 480-470.
Fig. 64.