Hill, George Francis: A handbook of Greek and Roman coins (London: Macmillan, 1899)

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GREEK AND ROMAN COINS

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apparently to the right of coinage specially accorded to this
place by the Romans in 89 b. c. On this piece we have on the
obverse a pair of scales, on the reverse a workman {mdlliatoi}


striking the die with a hammer as on the painting ; in front of
him stands another person (the optaT?) directing his work
(Fig. 25) k Other bronze coins of the same place represent
what appears to be the mint building.
1 Garrucci, Ze Monete dell’ Italia, Pl. 123, nos. 5 (the specimen here
figured) and 6.