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ch. iv] THE COINAGE AND THE STATE 117
types of its mother-city. Since colonists generally carried with
them the gods whom they had worshipped at home, it was
only to be expected that the old types, more or less modified,
would appear on the coins of the new foundation. This is the
explanation of the recurrence of Dionysiac types on coins of
Naxos in Sicily, a foundation of the island Naxos in the Aegean
Sea. So, too, the griffin of Apollo at Abdera is taken from
the griffin of the mother-city of Teos. Other instances of the
same phenomenon are found at Rhegium (the Samian type of
a lion’s scalp introduced by the Samian immigrants early in
the fifth century), or at Thurium (an improvement on the
Athenian head of Athena, Pl. VI. 5). What may be called
a negative illustration is found at Corcyra, whose hatred of her
mother-city Corinth is signalized by the adoption of a type
(Pl. II. 7) proper to Euboea, and of a standard which, what-
ever its origin, has nothing to do with Corinth k The great
commercial state was, however, more fortunate with other
cities which, being either founded by her, or· entering into
friendly relations, adopted, in the fourth century, and in some
cases earlier1 2, the well-known types of the head of Athena
and Pegasus. Even Apollonia and Dyrrhachium, although they
took their origin from Corcyra, at one time broke through their
connexion with their mother-city, and produced ‘ Pegasi ’ like
most of the other cities in this part of the world 3.
§ 17. Religious Combinations.
With the issues of single religious centres such as Olympia
and the temple at Didyma we have already dealt. To a certain
extent these may be regarded as federal issues, since the
importance of these centres was largely due to a combination
of the various states interested in them. In the case of the
Delphic issue of the Amphictiones we have a clear case of
coins being struck by the authority of the representatives
of a number of Greek states on the Amphictionic Council.
These fine coins (which read ’Α/χφικτιόΓων, and bear on the
1 Gardner, Types, p. 39, Pl. XVI. 24.
2 ‘ Pegasi ’ were struck at Ambracia as early as 480 b. c. Head, Brit. Ulus.
Catal., Corinth, &c., p. 104.
3 Head, Brit. Mus. Catal., Corinth, &c., p. 100.
types of its mother-city. Since colonists generally carried with
them the gods whom they had worshipped at home, it was
only to be expected that the old types, more or less modified,
would appear on the coins of the new foundation. This is the
explanation of the recurrence of Dionysiac types on coins of
Naxos in Sicily, a foundation of the island Naxos in the Aegean
Sea. So, too, the griffin of Apollo at Abdera is taken from
the griffin of the mother-city of Teos. Other instances of the
same phenomenon are found at Rhegium (the Samian type of
a lion’s scalp introduced by the Samian immigrants early in
the fifth century), or at Thurium (an improvement on the
Athenian head of Athena, Pl. VI. 5). What may be called
a negative illustration is found at Corcyra, whose hatred of her
mother-city Corinth is signalized by the adoption of a type
(Pl. II. 7) proper to Euboea, and of a standard which, what-
ever its origin, has nothing to do with Corinth k The great
commercial state was, however, more fortunate with other
cities which, being either founded by her, or· entering into
friendly relations, adopted, in the fourth century, and in some
cases earlier1 2, the well-known types of the head of Athena
and Pegasus. Even Apollonia and Dyrrhachium, although they
took their origin from Corcyra, at one time broke through their
connexion with their mother-city, and produced ‘ Pegasi ’ like
most of the other cities in this part of the world 3.
§ 17. Religious Combinations.
With the issues of single religious centres such as Olympia
and the temple at Didyma we have already dealt. To a certain
extent these may be regarded as federal issues, since the
importance of these centres was largely due to a combination
of the various states interested in them. In the case of the
Delphic issue of the Amphictiones we have a clear case of
coins being struck by the authority of the representatives
of a number of Greek states on the Amphictionic Council.
These fine coins (which read ’Α/χφικτιόΓων, and bear on the
1 Gardner, Types, p. 39, Pl. XVI. 24.
2 ‘ Pegasi ’ were struck at Ambracia as early as 480 b. c. Head, Brit. Ulus.
Catal., Corinth, &c., p. 104.
3 Head, Brit. Mus. Catal., Corinth, &c., p. 100.