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

ELECTRUM HECTAE.

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Class II. Circ. b. c. 400-387.



Fig. 294.

Fig. 295.

The second class of Lesbian electrum hectae shows the reverse type in
relief enclosed either in an incuse or later in a linear square.
Among the large number of types of these hectae which have come
down to us, it is easy to point out many which are certainly Lesbian;
but it is probable that there are many others, less distinctive in character,
which may also have been issued from the mint at Mytilene. The
following are those which I have least hesitation in ascribing to Lesbos:—

Head of Pallas, in close-fitting crested
helmet.
Head of Apollo, as on silver of Myti-
lene.
Female head, nearly facing, hair bound
with taenia.
Id.
Head of bearded Dionysos.
Forepart of boar.
Young male head.
Head of Apollo.
Head of Sappho (?) in sphendone.
Head of Demeter veiled.

Two calves’ heads, face to face ; between
them sometimes AE . . El. Hecte.
Calf’s head.El. Hecte.
Bull’s head ; above, sometimes M.
(Fig. 294.) .... El. Hecte.
Two boars’ heads ; between them A
El. Hecte.
Two calves’ heads, face to face, between
them a flower .... El. Hecte.
Lion’s head, with open jaws, in linear
square.El. Hecte.
Calf’s head, in linear square El. Hecte.
Lyre, in linear square . . El. Hecte.
Lyre, in linear square . . El. Hecte.
Tripod, filleted, in linear square
(Fig. 295.).El. Hecte.

CITIES OF LESBOS.

Aegirus, a small place between Mytilene and Methymna (Strab., 617).
Bronze, circ. b. C. 300 (Imhoof, Mon. Gr., p. 276).
Head of Pallas. | AITI Female head in sphendone M -4
Antissa, near the western extremity of the island, was destroyed by
the Romans b. c. 168.

Circ. b.c 300-168.

Female head.

ANTIZ Grotesque head of Dionysos
with tall tiara and long pointed beard
(Gardner, Types, Pl. XV. 12) IE *65
AN Apollo Kitharoedos . . M

Bull.