III. Account of three unpublished Greek Coins, in Letters from the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S. to the Earl of Leicester, President

Abstract

I have the honour to present to your Lordship and the Society, for their inspection, a curious, unpublished, autonomous, small brass coin of Sala in Phrygia, in fine preservation, of excellent workmanship, and undoubted antiquity. The type of this coin is a bearded, and laureated head, and on the reverse a bunch of grapes with the letters CAΛH very distinct: the NΩN, or termination of the word CAΛHNΩN, is now not visible, owing to the nun, omega, and nun, having been clipped, in order to reduce the size of, the coin, that it might be set as a gem. This we know has been sometimes the case with coins of superior workmanship. The position of Sala was upon the Mænder, between Pylaceum and Gazèna, to the north and south of it, making the boundary of Phrygia towards Lycia. Its longitude, in Mercator's map, is from Ptolemy 60–15, and latitude, which is reckoned, after its longitude, is 38–20. It lies on the river to the west of Mount Taurus, between the Lycus and the Mænder. This Sala, in Phrygia magna, is not mentioned by Stephanus Byzantinus, Strabo, or D'Anville; and, although passed over in silence by these great names in geography, richly deserves to be recorded, were it only for its excellence in the numismatic art, in its free state, and under the government of its own laws.