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Peparethus and its Coinage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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The Plate which illustrates this article represents a series of silver coins, Nos. 1–8, which bear a strong family likeness. They are all tetradrachms of the Euboic standard, and each displays on the obverse a peculiar bunch of grapes which would have excited even the infantine ridicule of the humblest painter of Dutch fruit-pieces. Two of these coins, Pl. IV. 2 and 8, both recent acquisitions of the British Museum, are unpublished, and present new types. Nos. 9–11 are bronze coins of Peparethus.
In type and style the most remarkable of these coins is Pl. IV. 1 = Fig. A. This piece was found in the island of Cos, but Mr. Barclay Head, who first made it known in 1891, attributed it in a very ingenious and learned paper to Cyrene. This attribution carried with it the assignment to Cyrene of the types here figured as Pl. IV. 3 (and 5), 4 (and 6), because all three types were found to be united together by a concatenation of dies.
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1 Num. Chron. 1891, p. 1.
2 1892, p. 20.
3 Peparethus is not the only provenance recorded for these coins. They have been found in Cos, in Macedonia (Salonica), and in Thessaly. Cos may safely be ruled out as the mint-place of these coins, for they in no way amalgamate with the already well known series of Coan money. Some coast-town of Thessaly, or, better, of Macedonia would have a fair claim to the coins, if the attribution to Peparethus is unacceptable. The helmet-reverse is rather distinctively Macedonian and the winged figure (Fig. A) has been compared (by Mr.Hill, , J.H.S. 1897, p. 79 Google Scholar) with the winged figure with a wreath, on a Macedonian (?) coin.
4 On Peparethus, see Bursian, , Geographie von Griechenland, ii. pp. 386 f.Google Scholar; Fredrich, C., ‘Skiathos und Peparethos’ in Mittheil. arch. Inst. (Athens) xxxi. (1906) p. 99 Google Scholar f. and references there; cp. Wace, ib. p. 129 f. ‘Skiathos und Skopelos’; Murray, 's Handbook for Greece, pp. 931 Google Scholar f.
5 On the wine, Demosth., In Lacrit. p. 935 Google Scholar; Soph., Philoct. 548 Google Scholar; Heracl. Pont. Fragm. 13; Athen, i. p. 29 a and f; Pliny, , H.N. xiv. 7 Google Scholar. 76.
6 The Roman numerals refer to the descriptive list of the coins given at the end of this article.
7 J.H.S. 1897, p. 80.
8 Head, , Guide to Coins of Ancients, Pl. VII. 12 Google Scholar.
9 Gardner, P., Types, Pl. III. 14 Google Scholar.
10 Wroth, , B. M. Cat. Mysia, Pl. IV. 7 and 9Google Scholar.
11 Hill, , Coins of anc. Sicily, Pl. I. 3 Google Scholar. Cp. also the head of a warrior on a Lycian coin, B.C. 500–460 in Hill, , B. M. Cat. Lycia, Pl. II. 7 Google Scholar.
12 Svoronos, , Journ. internat. d'arch. Num. 1905, p. 341 Google Scholar.
13 Theopompus ap. Athen. xiii. 605 B. C., quoted by Rouse, , Greek votive offerings, p. 281 Google Scholar.
14 Hill, , Coins of anc. Sicily, Pl. IV. 13 Google Scholar.
15 Head, , Guide to Coins of Ancients, Pl. XIII. 15 Google Scholar and B. M. Cat. Central Greece, p. 72.
16 A single dolphin was the badge of Ceos and on the coins it accompanies the distinctive types of the various towns of the island.
17 Journ. internat. d';arch. num. 1900, p. 59; cp. Head, B. M. Cat. Caria. p. lix.
18 See I.G. I. Index of Athenian Tributary Allies.
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Two coins (dans le commerce) shown at the British Museum in March 1906. A note of these was made by Mr. Hill, as follows:—1. Obv. Head of Hecate r. hair rolled; in front, arm holding torch. Rev.
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