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GREEK - Online Information article about GREEK |
 | | The series begins early in the 5th century B.C. with coins, some of which are didrachms (Aeginetic), having as subjects an eagle carrying a serpent or a hare, and on the reverse a thunderbolt or Victory bearing a wreatharchaic types which in their vigour promise the excellence of later days. |
 | | The oldest coins may be as early as 480 B.C. They bear the figure of the Minotaur as a bull-headed man, kneeling on one knee, and a maeander-pattern, in one case enclosing a star (the sun), in another a head (Theseus?). |
 | | The surrender of Jugurtha by Bocchus to Sulla is represented on a denarius of Sulia's son Faustus (62 B.c., Pl. II. |
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