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HISTORICAL ROMAN COINS
by the old Republic, and as a means not only of
relieving the capital of the world of starving pro-
letarians, bnt also of vigorously enforcing the Romani-
zation of the subject provinces.”1 Corinth began to
rise from its ruins probably one hundred and two
years after Mummius sacked it—he., in 44 b.c. ;
whether actually before the murder of the dictator or
not, it is difficult to say. Lor the fact that the
foundation is definitely ascribed by many ancient
writers to Caesar merely means that he made the
necessary plans before his death. It has indeed been
maintained that the real foundation was only effected
by the triumvirs after the battle of Philippi. The
numismatic evidence, on the whole, favours an earlier
date.2 For the duoviri L. Certus Aeficius and
C. lulius, who strike coins with the head of Julius
Caesar, do not represent the heads of M. Antonins or
Octavian, as they might be expected to do if their term
of office had fallen after the campaign of Philippi.
Further, the full title of the colony, Laus luli(a)
Corint(hus), which, on the coins certainly of the time
of Antonins, Augustus and the earlier emperors down
to Domitian, is replaced by the form CORI NT or
CORI NTH I, would be expected on the earliest coins.
1 Hertzberg, Gesch. Griechenlands, i., pp. 460 f.; where also the
varying views as to the date of the foundation are discussed.
2 On the chronology of the coins, see Earle Fox, in Journal Inter-
national cl’Archeologie Numi§matigue, ii, (1899), pp. 94 f.
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by the old Republic, and as a means not only of
relieving the capital of the world of starving pro-
letarians, bnt also of vigorously enforcing the Romani-
zation of the subject provinces.”1 Corinth began to
rise from its ruins probably one hundred and two
years after Mummius sacked it—he., in 44 b.c. ;
whether actually before the murder of the dictator or
not, it is difficult to say. Lor the fact that the
foundation is definitely ascribed by many ancient
writers to Caesar merely means that he made the
necessary plans before his death. It has indeed been
maintained that the real foundation was only effected
by the triumvirs after the battle of Philippi. The
numismatic evidence, on the whole, favours an earlier
date.2 For the duoviri L. Certus Aeficius and
C. lulius, who strike coins with the head of Julius
Caesar, do not represent the heads of M. Antonins or
Octavian, as they might be expected to do if their term
of office had fallen after the campaign of Philippi.
Further, the full title of the colony, Laus luli(a)
Corint(hus), which, on the coins certainly of the time
of Antonins, Augustus and the earlier emperors down
to Domitian, is replaced by the form CORI NT or
CORI NTH I, would be expected on the earliest coins.
1 Hertzberg, Gesch. Griechenlands, i., pp. 460 f.; where also the
varying views as to the date of the foundation are discussed.
2 On the chronology of the coins, see Earle Fox, in Journal Inter-
national cl’Archeologie Numi§matigue, ii, (1899), pp. 94 f.
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