XXXII. An Account of a Coin struck at Cyparissia. In a Letter to the President, by the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S.

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The next Coin, which I lay before your Lordship and the Society, is also, like the last, unpublished. It is of middle brass, and one of those towns permitted by the Emperors to be autonomous, and live under their own laws. The coins of Cyparissia are mostly imperial, and Sestini says (the best authority for Greek cities) always so; but here is an exception. On the right side is probably a head of Bacchus, with a lock on the foreherd, disposed like a horn, with which that god is represented, ‘Accedant capiti cornua Bacchus eris.’ Behind the head is Roma, in Greek letters. On the reverse is a figure standing, with a branch in its right hand, and a quiver at its back.