Samos and Samian coins
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...and then to Conon; but Panof ka73 with justice replies that the dedications, although all by Samians, were by no means by the same persons, but by the members of factions bitterly opposed one to the other. The history of Samos, like that of nearly all Greek cities, is a continuous record of faction-fights between aristocratic and democratic parties, and of the alternate victories of each. Thus, while the popular faction poured adulation on Alcibiades and Conon, the wealthy faction heaped honours on Lysander. If we forget facts like these in our reading of Greek history, we shall greatly misunderstand it. The settlement of the island by Lysander, however, did not long last; for Conon, after his great victory over the Lacedsemonians at Cnidus, in b.c. 394, at once sailed to the island, expelled the Lacedsemonian harmost, and set up once more a democracy under Athenian protection. Coins Of Periods II., III. The coins which may be assigned to the two periods under discussion are numerous, and their classification offers considerable difficulty. We are, however, assisted by valuable landmarks, and the task is by no means hopeless. To the beginning of Period II. must belong, if it be Samian, or even if it was issued by Samian colonists in Sicily, the varieties of our Nbs. 1 and 2, coins of which we have already spoken. 1. Obv.---Lion's scalp. Rev.--Forepart of galley, 1., in circular incuse. (B.M.) Jr. Wt. 267-2. PI. 1. 17. Other specimens:--as above (Zft.f. Num. iii., pi. ii. 6.) Wt. 268. in field, A (Paris.) Wt. 266. in field, 8 (Wiczay); in Wiczay Catalogue given to Phaselis. 2. Obv.--Lion's scalp. Rev.--Forepart of galley, 1., in circular incuse. (Imhoof.) JR. Wt. 17. PI. I. 18. And at the end of Period III. must be placed the coins issued by Samos as a membe...
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